Came across Lisp: The Ducati of Programming Languages over at defmacro.org yesterday:

“When you drive a car”, he said, “there is a disconnect between your thoughts and the machine. You sense it, but you’re never really conscious of it until you get a bike. You want the car to accelerate, you add some gas, and then you have to wait for a split second before the car listens to you. On a bike this delay is so much smaller, your brain doesn’t really register it. You think of something, and you’re there. A bike becomes a part of you - an extension of your body. You’ll probably need a Ferrari to achieve such unity with a car.”

~drool~ :)

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I’m not doing so hot at updating this blog regularly, am I. :) School’s keeping me busy (seems like I say that a lot) but I’ll try to figure out a focus, something that’ll get me writing. (And be interesting to read.)

In the meantime, I think I want to master regular expressions next. I’m familiar with them and have used them often, but there’s a lot of power in them there regexes. In other news, I’ll be coding a family website in Rails over the next few months. It’ll be a good testing ground for my Beyond work. And at work, it looks like this web app I’m working on will be almost all Javascript. Not what I expected, but I’d much rather work in Javascript than ASP.NET. :)

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