Joshua Thorin Messer

Everyone’s favorite Neil will be in Los Angeles on October 6 in support of The Graveyard Book. If you want to see if he’ll be in your town, I recommend subscribing to Where’s Neil

I’ll explain that ^ later.

Last week my benevolent employer was kind enough to send me to Atlanta, Georgia for Big Nerd Ranch’s Ruby & Ruby on Rails Bootcamp. All I can say is “awesome”. I wish I’d paid for it myself so I could say it was the best money I’ve ever spent. If you’re interested in learning Rails, go right now and sign up for the one they’ve got early next year in Germany. If you’re interested in programming on OS X, or for the iPhone, I’m betting those classes are even better (if such a thing is possible), as Cocoa programming is their speciality.

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I love this world. NPR’s All Songs Considered is offering a stream and podcast of the Atlanta show of Tom Waits’ Glitter & Doom tour. I’m going to go cry with unbearable joy for an hour or two. See you on the other side.