This is me trying. How fucking sad is that?

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You know what I love...posts like these...

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Current Mood: Amused

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Well, gone today, really. I went to get my haircut today, as I'd been considering. Mostly, I was just tired of dealing with it, and felt like a change. My hair is now roughly 15" shorter than it was. I do plan on sending the castoff to Locks of Love.

( By request, photos behind the cut... )

After Danielle got back from the UP we had to wash Roxie because she smelled like a mix of dog and lake. Following that I washed a few days of riding of mud off my bike, during which time I noticed that the coiled green plastic hose I have has a small split in it. This causes a very small, powerful jet of water to spray out.

I’m not sure how it happened, but thankfully it’s still small. Hopefully it won’t get much bigger.

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http://blog.brianguthrie.com/articles/2008/07/19/marketing-ruby

Scheme, a variant of Lisp popular in academic settings, has no download link on its extremely minimalist home page. If you click Implementations, it will list about fifty and recommend about ten. Visit the Ruby homepage and you are presented with a modern, polished, attractive site and a large, friendly Download Ruby link.

Marketing isn’t always about advertising. If you believe in a product, present it to the world in a way that makes it easy for others to believe in. It’s easy to be cynical about appearances, but they are, here and now as they have ever been, important. This principle is extended deeply into the Ruby language itself. From a technical standpoint, Ruby does very little that other languages don’t, but the metaprogramming hooks it makes available to users are straightforward and user-friendly and make its users feel immediately powerful. The elaborate contortions (do watch the presentation if you can, it’s awesome) that the language itself must go through in order to provide a convenient interface to the user doesn’t detract from the net result. Simplexity sells.

Ruby and, now, Rails have been around for long enough that it seems, at least to me, that most people who were ever going to have an opinion on it now do so. But accusations of hype are and always have been overblown; I would go so far as to call that particular brand of cynicism a kind of intellectual laziness convenient to those don’t understand a phenomenon and don’t particularly want to. Regardless of whether or not Ruby and/or Rails are here to stay (and I think they are, but then, I’m an optimist), it would be foolish to ignore the lessons here.

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Current Mood: cheerful

Flist meme.

"1. Go to your profile and copy your list of friends.
2. Bold those you've met in person.
3. Italicize those you've spoken to on the phone."

I edited the list to strike out non-people, or duplicates of the same person because they have multiple LJs.

adnault, aerlorn, alec_jenner, allegroconmolto, amberdiceless, amethystjade, archangelbeth, caitilin, callingcry, celtickleric, chaosvizier, cleolinda, cmerun12, crankykitten, d_jackson531, delazan, fadethecat, funambulator, fuzzface00, gaeanangel, gamethyme, gerkinator, goloban, gonadsandstrife, gsharper13, hms_ennui, hoppingviola, islandfish, jackwalker, jennyanydots21, joe_khamael, labyrinthman, lindensphinx, longstrider, madonna5440, malakitten, meankitten, momae, mundungu, pallid_regina, pyrephox, reverend_girl, revsphynx, roolet, ryuutchi, sariel_di, sharrukin, shinga, siadea, solaas, soulscode, stevenehrbar, symposiarch, tashkal, thegodofwar, theladyskye, thomsolo, tymberlyn, virginiaplaine, xnrrn.

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Yesterday I posted that I was looking at a Concord frame. I couldn't deal with the guy selling it, he was acting like too much of an asshole. ("Better come get the bike before I decide to keep it - be here at 2 pm tomorrow!".. when I hadn't even said I was available at 2 pm tomorrow.)

Anyways, I went and looked and tried some bikes out, but I ended up going with a Raleigh Record. I test rode some of them, but this one just seemed to fit. I'm sure it's heavy compared to a modern bike, but I wanted something I could buy and then pimp out over time. He also gave me the name of a place that will do a tune up for $45.

My first album was actually two albums; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Full Moon Fever and Def Leopard's Hysteria. No I don't listen to them as they are on cassette and I don't own a cassette player, and am not fond of the format.

As an aside I also rarely use CD's anymore as I can just rip them to OGG. Ironically enough I do own a turntable and use it regularly.

Other than that, I probably would listen to them currently if they were in a more convenient format.

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