"WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THAT
SMILEY ANIMATION?"
I'll tell you. It is the result of an obsessive-compulsive outburst
back in April or May of 1995. I created it one Sunday afternoon in a
failed attempt to win the heart and mind of a woman I met on IRC.
My efforts to win her did not succeed, but the smiley business
just rolls on, spreading what I can only think of as "General Goddam
Happiness" to anyone capable of viewing it.
At the time, I enlisted the help of Richard Pritz in the matters
of the server-push script; he wrote the script in its entirety, and
questions about it can be directed to him, not me. I did, earlier
this year, have what I thought was a pretty respectable understanding
of how the script worked, and of Perl, but after the obsessive-compulsive
episode wore off and I didn't get the girl, I completely put it out
of my mind and have not made any effort since then to regain what
was probably a pretty superficial understanding of Perl.
So there you have it. Adios for now.
