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  1. I'm still here, @uncleltrain!
  2. I'll be speaking at Skills Matter (an evening forum) on the subject of ruby-versions.net: http://tinyurl.com/krzkqq
  3. P.S. I am not the "has an x method" police! Say whatever you want! Just make sure to help people understand the Ruby object model.
  4. @chadfowler Boola, boola!
  5. Coming to London in early August to teach at Skills Matter. Anyone need their own training/consulting? Could stay an extra week....
  6. @grantmichaels I.e., yes to "can i continue into regex", not to "will i need them" :-)
  7. @grantmichaels Yes -- I think the enumerator stuff is relatively self-contained.
  8. Fridge repair people are here. Unlike the first crew (the ones who broke the fridge), these people impress me as knowing what they're doing.
  9. @augustl Right; "calling a method" is a high-level way of saying "sending a message which the object will resolve into a method to call...."
  10. OK, fridge people called; they're coming. Time to empty the fridge....
  11. I see many people banging their heads about Ruby's object model because that principle isn't clear to them.
  12. Important Ruby principle: objects don't "have" methods. Objects have the intelligence to look for methods in relevant classes and modules.
  13. No phone call last night establishing time of (brand new) fridge repair visit. I'll be astonished if they actually show up.
  14. Welcome to Twitter, little sis @robin_black !
  15. I think the problem with Weeds is that all the main characters have essentially the same personality.
  16. So great to see my niece @ElizSimins's byline in the Buffalo News!
  17. I'm told my last thumbnail looked like I was about to vomit, unless you zoomed in. So I've changed it.
  18. @alancfrancis There some table-as-layout HTML out there with my name attached to it. I dare not breathe another word.
  19. @mcnamarabrian People are incredible.
  20. @alancfrancis Yeah, it was complaining to me about you the other day.