I just joined twitter after disparaging it, hating it, not getting it and generally thinking it kinda sucked. Hell much colder.

College calls at 730 on friday to say Latin III canceled due to low enrollment. Drink up to the death of classical education!

Ruby’s Unicode String methods suck. A 4 character string with 2 unicode characters is handled by iterators as a 6 character string. wtf.

class UnicodeSafeString … end – maybe I’ll how at Lone Star Ruby Conf for lauging at and derision earning amidst far better Ruby hackers.

Waiting for Lauren so we can go to CHUY’s

I think typewriters are beautiful. The power of the Guetenberg movable type press on your desk. And the italians made beautiful ones…

Completing my Unicode library, listening to Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Killing Moon”

Finished my Ruby Library for dealing with Latin strings that contain Unicode glyphs. Submitted to peer review via Austin ruby Coders. Ulp.

Want: http://tinyurl.com/4dmq2b – Real bad.

The owls make beautiful, gentle music: http://www.myspace.com/theowlsband with a folkish, mamas-n-papas, minnesota feel.

Watching Python’s “Meaning of Life”

I’m porting Perl code to M4 macro language so that I can flexibly deploy it to dev/ prod, and stage situations.

@lauren’s diet advice: Are you really hungry or do you just want the flavor tunnel to keep on going? A good way to eat half a sandwich.

Looking outside to see how close the thunderstorms are. Nothing roars like Texas thunder: like a hungry bear lurking overhead.

Saw Tropic Thunder. Respect for Ben Stiller returns to 1991 levels.

Back at UTexas waiting for a class to start. 8 years later.

At the UT Union Loggia. Last time I studied here ( 1997 ) there was a vampire real-world cosplay game going on.

processing the foodbomb known as the Freeb!rd.

Watching 30 rock season 1 on DVD .

Got twitterberry working. Lauren and I rocking it 1987 style at olive garden.