Powdered Non Sequitur Man

The FAIL Blog — funniest damn thing I’ve seen all day.

…of people talking about Ruby, and even hacking a bit (though perhaps not as much as I might have liked). The day got off to a bit of a slow start, but I had a great time after lunch, and the last two sessions I went to kicked major ass.
I feel like I walked [...]

I just had a horribly resource-consumptive idea: running a Rails app on JRuby, using the GemStone appliance as a persistence layer. Of course, the Ruby-to-Java marshaling might impose prohibitive performance overhead… but still, it’s an amusing thought. (=

I’m at RubyCamp, the organizers are putting together the schedule, and there are at least 60 people here — every single one a man. [b]Oy!
(The programming gender gap is pretty large generally, but at least in Portland we have a few women who show up. I guess here they all have something better [...]

…well, no. I’m still as American as I ever was. But, this weekend finds me in the vast northern wasteland that is Vancouver, British Columbia — home of Science World, toonies, and the Jaunty Crosswalk Guy! Oh, how I’ve missed thee, cheery little icon of carefree pedestrianism.
Anyway, I’m here, for this, and [...]

The Nerd Handbook, an eerily accurate description of life with the Sam,
A blog post comparing software development to animating Frankenstein’s monster, which contains this choice quote:
Software development is a lot like building Frankenstien’s monster. You start out with a pile of useless ugly pieces, and try to turn it into something beautiful. Along the way, [...]

Haven’t felt like posting much of late, but Taking Style Tips From Natural Language makes an interesting connection I hadn’t considered before. Nicely done.