[This is a reply to this comment to a two-year-old post in my journal. It was too long to post in a reply, but I figured since I wrote it, I should probably put it somewhere.]

First, let me say I probably have a narrow idea of what constitutes useful criticism of works of ( Read more... )

I have stopped believing in things ( Read more... )

The 2005 Ruby Conference was in San Diego this weekend, and it was the best and biggest one I've been to. Got to hang out with the old familiar Ruby crowd, plus a whole slew of new people that found Ruby throught the Rails web framework. Very exciting.

Now back to Ohio for the regular grind.*sigh*

Sometimes I get a line from an imaginary movie in my head, and it sits there, haunting me, until I drink enough tequila that it goes away or starts slurring and I can laugh at it ( Read more... )

Most of the entries past this point are friends-only. Sorry. I got tired of idiots.

I look it up in the instruction manual that came with this organism beneath me -- the one I'm imprisoned in. The one that binds me and keeps me, writhing in the squalor, in the morass of constant barren repetition. I look up the reasons, the why of this endless, expected, habitual bleeding into a common stainless-steel gutter, the one which feeds ( Read more... )