My brother Andrew had his birthday on the weekend and I was trying to think of some "Thing" to get him ...
The best present we received as boys was a computer called a "Dick Smith Wizard". Imagine a Commodore 64 meets an Atari. My Uncle, who himself was a computer programmer, advised my mother to forget about the Atari and get us a *real* computer. The Wizard had only 16K of RAM, which by today's standards makes it more like a calculator. Nonetheless, the cartridge that spent the most time plugged in was not "Tank Attack" or "Crazy Chicken" but the "Basic" programming cartridge. At 7 and 8 years old the two of us were a little programming pair: extreme, underaged programming. I would do the 'vision thing' and Andrew would patiently explain two dimensional arrays to me. We had loads of fun and learnt lots too.
So in the same spirit of fun I'm going to make him a Thing for his birthday. His lingua franca is Python so that means:
> goo -m py.goo
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