[Bendug] Updates

[Tim Howe]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:31:52 -0700
"Mark Turner" <amerine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Guys
> 
> Its been a while since there was any activity here. Whats everyone been up
> to?
> 
> I will start with me... believe it or not after the last group meeting, I
> was listening to Tim and Paul about ruby and I decided to give it a try....
> 
> wow what the hell too me so long, I cant believe what I was missing...

	That's the ussual reaction (except for this one guy who stopped after a week and said "it's too hard", but he would have made Ruby less cool if he liked it.)

> and then I started messing with rails... I fell in love. I haven't had this
> much passion for something in a while(besides jeran ;) ). I have nothing up
> public but my box at home probably has 12 rails apps on it.

	I haven't really looked at rails much.

> A few other things are going on... I finally got a great Job here in Bend.
> I'm on the development team at a great company that produces software for
> local and state level government agencies.

	Awesome!

> I'm getting married next June
> 23rd. w00t.

	Rad!

> Lately I've been questioning my reasons for deciding to use
> Linux

	What were the reasons?  Were they questionable?

> and I've been finding myself switching between windows and Linux on my
> laptop quite often recently. I feel like I've lost my passion for Linux, and
> open source in general, I just cant find the spark I had once and I don't
> know how to get it back. I've been thinking about buying a mac mini &
> textmate to see if I enjoy that for rails development, but I'm not sure
> about that either.
> 
> What do you guys do to keep you passion? What have you done lately that was
> exciting?

	Passion?  With me it's ethics and logic.  unix-like systems give me the tools I need.  Free software is ethical.  And anyway, making stuff work is fun.  Commercial software sucks donkey balls.

--TimH