WebPoobah

Wow … it’s amazing what a good pair of sunglasses can do for your eyes. I used the “I’ll squint till its better” method for a long time as well as pulling out my super-out-of-date-hey-isn’t-that-a-dude-I-know-from-the-80s sunglasses for many years. My old pair of sunglasses that were awesome albeit out of style were polarized Revo’s and even though I thought Oakley’s were the way to go, I settled on another pair of lightweight polarized Revo’s. I feel good and look good at the same time … Woot!

There’s nothing better than creating a social group around anything that you’ve got a passion for. It seems that we try harder and harder to socially interact without being social, so being able to talk to other people face-to-face is even more priceless these days. Bonus is the fact that this social group are a bunch of Rubyists and we can talk Ruby/Rails till the cows come home.

Well, I never really actively tried to stop playing City of Heroes. However, I haven’t logged on since January and to tell you the truth, I have very little motivation to play CoH these days. The cure for CoH (Or Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs in general) that saved this Gaming Addict? ... Ruby on Rails. I knew that if I ever were to stop playing games and do something productive, I’d need something that interested me and was as much fun as CoH. Months and months ago, I basically scoffed(?) at this notion. Java is boring. Python is cool (but not nearly enough to pull me away from CoH). Nothing appeared on my radar that was even close to curing my of my CoH addiction.

Enter Ruby on Rails. When the buzz started up about RoR late last year and the beginning of this year, it piqued my interest enough to check it out. Maybe 10 minutes later (i.e. the famous “10 minute Rails Intro video” I was completely hooked. This is what Web apps were meant to be! Nowadays, if I have any free time at all … it’s spent engrossed in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

Thanks Dave Thomas, Matz and DHH!