Yeah. Did you know that if you have a trailer almost out of sight in a neighborhood you will still have people complain?

“Awh lookie thar Matilda! That thar trailer ain’t made of unicorns and pixie dust! Let’s complain because it’s gonna go ingest them thar local virgins EVEN THOUGH it’s just sittin’ thar, not at all unattractive to my faceholes, doing nothin’ to impede on our daily lives! Pass the XXX jug fer ‘mah liver decimation and crank up thar Billy Ray!”

Seriously?! And not only has my gracious buddy received one complaint, he’s received MULTIPLE! It’s just a trailer! It’s not even dirty! It’s doing nothing to you! Move on with your lives! Take up a hobby! Try learning a new language! I wanna go around knocking on their doors asking, “Really? It bothers you THAT much? It’s just a trailer, practically out of sight. I’ll give you a wowwy pawp if you, I dunno, USE YOU ENERGY ON SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE!”

*ahem*

My apologies. I don’t like to vent publically but… I feel it was well justified.

Anyway, I’m currently downloading Xcode for Mac. Apparently it’s a nifty tool to have with Ruby on Rails development. Web 2.0 fascinates me and I want to bathe in it’s shiny, reflective, glowey e-juices. I look at the sheer genious and simplicity of Twitter and think, “Ohhh I can do that!” The mere fact that it cuts development time by roughly two-thirds has me salivating like a teenaged boy in an erotic video game store. Did I talk about this stuff already? *reads previous blog*

Why yes I did.

Having my server squad update the operating system on my server is going to be necessary when I start transitioning over to Rails. Do I fear such a thing? Possibly. Transistions from server operating systems, especially from one physical server to another, has never been a copy/paste process. They tell me that the transistion is near seamless and I might have to go in and reconfig a few things, so that puts my geeky paranoia at some sort of rest.

My first Rails project will be Blargbox.com to get myself familiarized with the system. It’ll be a rather simple, yet incredibly functional, blogging site. I have no intention on making it a success, but I think it’ll be a nice thing to play with and get down. It’ll function kindof like Rawrb.com does, but allow signups and let people create their own Blargbox. It’ll have feeds, comments, messages, friends, blah blah blah – just simplified. And dumb.

I think.

What else… oh. Joshy sent me 110 changes to the DVD the other day. I flipped out. “Rawrb was done, but not anymore!” Meeeh. I finished 108 of those 110. The last two remaining changes contain one somewhat simple task and one really annoying one. I decided I don’t like video editing mostly because I have to endure the scrutiny of others. Wait… it’s scrutiny I don’t like, not video editing. Then again, perhaps I just need to relax and be gracious for the extra eyes.

NO! I’m just ANGRY!

Alright, I suppose I should start getting ready for my trip. Thanks for being there for my venting, anonymous internet reader!

OH! I also just became an iPhone developer! Now once there’s a high, profitable demand for “Hello world!” apps I’ll be a rich, bearded, trailer transgressor rather than the broke kind.

I’m incredibly interested in Ruby on Rails. This web 2.0 stuff is very impressive to me and I’m a bit burnt out on slaving away at hundreds of lines of PHP code. I watched a few of their presentations and was just blown away about how this guy build a blog app in 15 minutes. I think about this and how much my productivity can go up just from that. The thing that would take longer would be the actual design with CSS and graphics. 0_o

So, before I start any new projects, I’m going to study Ruby on Rails in a bit more depth and get this slow moving web development thing taken care of. I figure with all these things I want to produce it’ll benefit me in the long run to learn this new language and API. Luckily the past 10+ years of learning web stuff will be my learning curve. Yay!

Tomorrow I’ll be blasting energy at this new DVD menu. It’ll be nice to have that done.

I’ve decided to find more motivated writers for Pluh.com, and I think I’ve found a small handful who won’t disappoint. I can build them the means to write awesomeness and help lead them to recognition and experience. One of those win/win situations that I’m trying my best to cultivate and unleash.