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[via How Now Brown Pau] Tequila + testosterone + lightsabers = trouble [video, typical college kid swearing]. “A bit Forced,” says Paulo, but it made me smirk.

I’ve fended off a mugger while travelling once, with a little help from the accordion (See the December 31, 1999 section), but I have to salute the 70-year-old tourist who killed a 20-year-old mugger — who had two buddies armed with knives — in Costa Rica with his bare hands with a filet mignon on a flaming sword.

Yes, I think it’s a shame that the mugger died, but the old guy was well within his rights to defend himself. If I ever end up in a similar fix, I hope I have the wit, wherewithal and the courage that he did. At the very least, I’d like to be in his shape at 70.

I’ve been running into the misspelling “definately” more and more. That’s why I’m glad that someone finally set up a web site that explains that the word is spelled “D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y”. You know, from the same root word as “define”.

The only thing scarier than seeing famous Open Source spokesgeek Eric S. Raymond in mid-make-out…

…is seeing Steve Jobs and Bill Gates just prior to making out!

Where can you find these images? On Global Nerdy, the tech blog I run with my pal George! Check it out! End of exclamation marks!

As long as we’re having unseasonably cold temperatures, could I have one these, please?

Photo from Miss Fipi Lele. Click to see at full size.

[via Kottke] Do you sit up late at night wondering what the meaning of life is? You’re in luck: there’s a Wikipedia entry.

I’ve decided to take a more active role in the Ruby and Ruby on Rails development communities. The first step in that role is starting a Ruby-specific blog at blog.rubynerd.com:

The blog will cover news and announcements related to the Ruby programming language, as well as my own contributions to the body of documentation about it.

As for articles, I’ve already posted three:

• RailsConf 2007: Just Over 100 Seats Left! If you haven’t signed up yet, do so soon.
• Hivelogic’s “Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X”. If you’re thinking about seriously getting into Rails development on OS X, this is the installation recipe to follow.
• Ruby Moving Up the TIOBE Charts. This time last year, Ruby’s rank on the TIOBE Programming Community Index was 20. Today, it’s a number 10, just behind JavaScript.