@greatdismal One person's dystopia is another's utopia. When I taught HS English, some of the kids thought Fahrenheit 451 would be paradise.

Dude, There's Your Car #smartermovies

Birthday card to @steveklabnik 's dad sent. Take a moment to send one if you haven't already? http://t.co/EgaXDcn5

If you give Net::HTTP's post_form method a nested hash, it just gives up and encodes it as a string. Hand encode or use to_query (in Rails).

So, pair programming is as great and as difficult as @angelaharms told me it would be at #mwrc. Love it, still getting the hang of it.

OH: "Poor Cthulhu, from abject horror to children's mascot in under a hundred years."

Thank goodness for RVM. Instead of freaking out now when I have problems, I just go to the RVM website and do whatever @wayneeseguin said.

@heybrae thanks! Although I feel like I've learned from, and been inspired by, you. Your words are another thing to be grateful for :-)

Realized one of my former journalism students, perhaps in spite of me, now writes for the NYT. Chalking it up as a win cc/ @staceykanderson

If, say, switching to a different service with a new API, calls for rewriting code, I'm always glad for the chance to do it again & better

"You don't send messages because you have objects, you have objects because you send messages." -- @sandimetz #gogaruco

New blog! (Thanks, @octopress !) Please check out my first post: http://t.co/aWZscL8d

#MongoDB has no enforcement of schema; Mongo adopted by Craigslist for their archives bc running alter table used to take 3 months

2 big reasons to look at NoSQL databases: if you store large amounts of data, but NoSQL also lends itself to agile development #MongoDB

More people have been asking me about the blue bracelet on my wrist lately-- find out more about neurofibromatosis http://bit.ly/90ernC #NF

Best part about seeing Star Trek? My 8 year old turning to me as the credits began to roll and saying, "I have to see that again."

@heybrae yes, and for me, a reminder that it's ok to allow myself to be happy with my life and with myself as I am

I Have Everything I Need cc/ @heybrae #mynewmantra

Me, a couple of days ago: "Why do people make gems that wrap Ruby's net/http library?"
Me, today: "Oh. That's why."

@sweetaroll the sad truth I've learned about git blame is that when I ask "Who *wrote* that code?" and use it, I see I can only blame myself