Damien Katz

Brilliant! LOL

A Volkswagon Lisp is worth driving for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; either that or it's a great vehicle for carrying lots of guns and open source manifestos, I forget which...

Nice,

How is couch coming along, you making any big money yet?

Yes, but Python comes with gasoline included!

I drove one of those Beetles from 1970 to 1973. It's a piece of crap.

[1] With all the weight in the back, it has the stability of a ping-pong ball when driving on the highway.

[2] The cheap wheel covers quickly rust.

[3] The heat has to travel a long distance from the rear engine to the front of the car. When the heater ducts rust, as they inevitably do, you get no more heat in the front, and you can't see through the frosted windshield.

[4] The seat rails rust and seize up. You can no longer adjust the seat for your shorter spouse.

[5] The valve clearances are critical on an air-cooled engine. On a trip away from home, a valve stem broke, and the valve gouged into the top of the piston like hot butter. Lost the $%^& engine.

Your VW's were too new. The older the better.

I had a 63 ragtop and it was great. Slow. But great. It was funny cause when I went to pick it up from the owner (an obvious ex-hippie) I was driving it home - opened the ashtray and inside was 1/2 a joint! Sweet!

Berlin, I'm working hard on CouchDb, seeking out investment right now.

Too bad that "Lisp guy" couldn't see the value in couchdb. What was in the YC parking lot?

The great thing about the old VW engines is you could tear out 1/2 of the wires and 2/3 of the hoses and it would keep on running - just at 30 decibels louder and smellier.

Don't forget the motorhome: http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/novelties/volkswagen-bug-camper-please-dont-blame-it-on-the-drugs-119962.php

I actually have seen one built like this. Probably still parked outside the beetle shop in Fort Collins, CO.

Awesome!

I love it. :)

Punch Bug!!!

WHACK!

I purchased my first car, a 1965 VW, in 1971 and drove it until 1985. It served me well -- winters in Edmonton and Ottawa and trips back and forth across the Rockies included. (And the guy who purchased it from me converted it from a Beetle to a Buggy.) Lisp wasn't my first programming language but I started using it before I bought the VW, and I still have use for it, partly for occasional programming tasks but mostly for ideas. (And I've been converting it into other syntaxes ever since.) These days I'm using languages like C# and Python and driving a Toyota Corolla. But unlike the VW and every other programming language and car I've used, Lisp hasn't worn out or become obsolete.

Good show!

hilarious!
loving it... now i want to write my own buggy :o
because... i'm a fucking genius, right? ;3

I have a 1971 VW Beetle that has been in my family since it was brand new (my grandfather bought it, my aunt drives it for the past 25 years, I learned to drive on it).
It is slow and heavy, but has been in constant use these past 35 years without a break.
It is still the car with which I have driven the most kilometers - being an avid motorbike driver I don't drive many cars - and boy does it make heads turn.
Only, like every old thing, you need to be extra carefull nowdays with it. Wouldn't trade it for any other car though.

"The Temple of Java":

http://codecraft.info/index.php/archives/72/

:-D
Python is a Microbus campmobile. Kitchen sink included.

My 73 is my wagon, van, camper, gazebo... dream container.

My favourite VW bug ad showed a frigid snowy Canadian morning and asked "Have you ever wondered how the snow plow driver gets to work?"

I HATE FAST THEY ARE SIK!

you forgot AI

I hate to sound this way, but come on!

I like the idea of lisp. It was great. Not some silver bullet cure-all like some would have us believe *cough* PG *cough*.

Today with Clojure (on the JVM), a lisp still has its place! Imagine the power that could be CouchDB with a Clojure as its view language? Awesome.

@Chuck Darwin-- you mean Scheme?

These are nice Volkswagen innovations. I like the beetle truck.I cant really imagine that they were able to convert the beetle into a truck.lol..

This Toyota recall is very regrettable. Those people like yours truly who have a stake in Toyota stocks are starting to get afraid.