Make it Soft

I completed the SF0 task: Make It Soft, by cross-stitching another QR code:

"Make it soft," I read, and concluded:

This task must be softer: soft as mashed potato, soft as candyfloss, soft as a cuddly Cthulhu.

Like many other great and noble players who have completed this task, I turned to the softness of fabric and thread.

After learning to cross-stitch space invaders and Pac-Man ghosts a few months ago, I learnt to cross-stitch QR codes, by initially following some of the instructions from Instructables: QR code cross-stitch patch.

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I started sewing it while at the Royal Festival Hall, in London. I was at a theladiesloos meet, and one of the people there was cross-stitching a bug, and the other was altering a zombie-related t-shirt so that it would fit her better.

A girl, a teenage girl, told me what I was sewing was cool.

A group of people started singing and I caught the word, "hell". I presumed they were singing a religious song, telling me I was going to hell, but no, it turned out they were protesting against Shell.

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Languages

I have been learning Ruby on Codecademy, prompted by the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book. So far I am 56% of the way through.

For the Computer Anonymous meet-up on Thursday, I am thinking of printing out some entries from Esolang the esoteric programming languages wiki. I missed my train stop this morning, due to being too distracted by esoteric programming languages. Chef, is a well known one, where programs look like recipes to cook. The Shakespeare Programming Language is probably another you may have heard of, but there's also languages such as the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic inspired FiM++:

A Hello World example, written in FiM++ is given:
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Dear Princess Celestia: Hello World!

Today I learned something simple.
I said “Hello, World!”!
That's all about something simple!

Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.
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There are also programming languages where programs are like pictures, such as Piet, where programs look like abstract paintings, and BlackCoffin.gif, which uses black and white pixels.

Any suggestions of other esoteric languages I should print out descriptions of?