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Homepage: http://whytheluckystiff.net/
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In the steam over the mules under the sweaters from
the girls academy and born in a family of runaways, I ran
away. Each foot seperate. A wet gear stuck in a heart
full of throat. Then, I wrestled the World
Champion Arm Wrestler a few
years ago and I won and he gave me the ring and I was the
World Champion Arm Wrestler for a few days. He reclaimed
his title on a weekday during a time when I never would
have expected the imminent invention of advogato.org.
Always resilient, I completely recovered and wore a vintage
tuxedo in the process.
If I were to guess anything about you, I would say you are
sitting there with your glass of milk and an appropriate
napkin. Very appropriate. A moth hums 'Yankee Doodle'. A
phone is ringing in the courtyard where you live. It
magically answers itself and does some backup singing for
the moth. You are most likely an affiliate branch of GNOME
or PHP. Good to have you.
Alright then, we are introduced.
This person wrote:
30 May 2005 (updated 30 May 2005 at 18:46 UTC) »
I'm practically paralyzed under a flood of ideas, none of which is particularly important, but all of which give me an initial sting of glee and, afterward, scheduling problems.
Of these, I think The Least Surprised is showing promise. It's just once a week.
I hate Moleskine notebooks. They ruined two months worth of writing. Did Van Gogh not see this coming? They are too small, too few of pages and the pocket always falls apart. I am left with the notebook equivalent of a condemned building. Fortunately, I have stumbled upon Xonex journals on ebay, which are a hearty 240 pages, wide and ruled and much sturdier. I know this notebook works because I just filled one up in the last little while. Filled with a myriad of incidents, short plays and large prosaic outlines. The Xonex journal I am using right now was given to me by a friend who left for Indiana so he could give his daughter better medical treatment.
The (Poignant) Guide is now moving forward with French and German translations. If you have any goodwill to offer in this respect, please consider joining the translators' list and go right ahead and announce your name. I'm going to work on translating the comics to German in these next few hours.
kjw, I'm checking out your RST tarball just now. You should also examine the un library, described at the very end of What's Shiny and New in Ruby 1.8.0? (Search for "-run".)
ohhhh, a laptop has changed my life. my last laptop was a hand-me-down 166 mhz dell latitude. it passed on earlier this year. and it was remarkably handy to its ill end. i had contemplated getting a powerbook. but my compaq v2000 was cheaper, its dothan chip clearly bests the g4 in benchmarks, and i just resist blending in with the coffeehouse crowd at present. my apologies, that was mean. or true. i saw four guys in a row, mesmerized, with glowing apples, and i thirsted for otherwise. so, yeah. it's just easier to be productive when i can code out in the biosphere. having a good time doing RedHanded. ruby is aged enough to have a smattering of excellent inside jokes: son-shi, code katas, slavoj zizek, and of course the elaborate duck enthusiasm that pervades the culture. spent all last week and this week working on the syck updates. the base lib in cvs is now usable again. the ruby extension is broken, but should be stellar soon enough. and yet, i still need lasers in my life.
2 Dec 2004 (updated 2 Dec 2004 at 22:19 UTC) »
if i can recommend three fine coders for your certs. these are three active fellows in the world, who can't seem to manage even an apprentice and (not that it's a big deal), but they're quite deserving of the encouragement. * neoneye: simon is terribly entrenched in good works of ruby. the resources section of his aeditor project is a decent chunk of helpful documentation. i mean really. cert!! * tcopeland: tom is the admin of rubyforge, for cryin out loud!! he's a gifted surgeon for tweakin GForge to our needs, he's very very attentive to the rubyforge denizens, and he's a constant force for good on ruby-talk. this asset = cert!! * codedbliss: bruce is responsible for codepaste.org, which is down at the moment, but i assure you it is quality. he is currently an apprentice, but we can nudge that up, right?? right?? cert!! i'm just saying. ruby guys in the house. if you're up to one more: aero6dof.
at last. a bit of time to wrap up chapter five of my scrappy little manual, the (poignant) guide. i hope no one minds if i open up and talk about this for just a moment. i love my sister. she's a knockout. the eyes, the prominent cheekbone. her teeth are sparkly. but, better yet, she can improvise. i can sing, "who's locked the cupboard and kept me from my shiny metal whistle?" and she will not hesitate, "call the judges, call the county! the law states that you must die!!" moves into jazzy numbers, moves into hymns, moves into heavy metal anthems and sloppy falsettos. and she is brave enough to misstep, which used to cause her dates to leave. and she got one guy to chase cantaloupes. but now her everyday is a painful, wretched skeleton grip. with enough marijuana, with enough shrooms, with enough vodka, whoa whoa no-no on the sleeping pills. no, you will die. (but, i want to die.) hang on, kid, hang on. (i've hurt everyone, i need to go away.) that's the vodka, girl. that's not you at all, at all. her eyes are sad. my eyes are sad. but we look at each other for a while and we take a walk and we play with some chimes. and we can still make up songs, but this is going to take years. it's okay, there's a sky and there's a lake and there's a swingset. and i go home and draw cats and doctors in space. without the medication. i'm a stiff. an upright. i'll never pass a joint. maybe mj works, maybe mj's death. i have too much mental illness in my blood to find out. narco+alco have turned kooky people i love into obliterated people i love. god, god, god, please keep her alive. (if i'm lucky maybe god will let a horse run by.) families are a network of lost packets and bad routing. cause you got spouses on the vpn. it's not all that bad, but it's fun to moan, ya know. i love working on an obscure book. people cling to ideas, because they're supposed to be vouchers for a million dollars. no, write an obscure book. build something outside all that pressure. i guess treehouses for kids qualify. ok, well, i'm sounding like livejournal. pathetic. ;)
just want to pop a thank to Liedra for her certification. i submitted an entry to freshmeat for the (poignant) guide last week or so. she responded with a very nice message that, though freshmeat didn't accept lit listings any longer, she had checked out the guide and found it appealing. something like that. then, i see her certification on my page and i just have to say: that's really classy. amazing that after a full year of sorting through (what must be) hundreds of thousands of submissions, you're still so dedicated and good to the users.
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