Archive for August, 2009
A Letter to My Younger Self
A Letter to My Younger Self: “
Sure, I could go back and tell my teenage self not to give up playing the piano, but would that just leave me in my 30’s dreading another gig in the bar of some hotel waiting for the inevitable tooth-grinding moment some drunk tourist requests ‘Piano Man’ for the sixty thousandth time? Would I hunch over the keys, bang out those first chords and wish to my core I could go back in time and advise my teenage self to teach himself Perl?
So I pondered. And I thought. And I finally came up with the one important, nay vital bit of advice I would give myself if I had the chance….
Charlotte.rb Organizational Meeting
Hello, Charlotte Rubyists!
As you may have heard, our organizer and sponsor, Jesse Schoch, has left the Queen City for Northern Virginia early this month. That leaves us with some pretty big shoes to fill if we’d like the group to continue on!
I’d like to suggest an organizational meeting for Amelie’s Bakery on Tuesday, Aug. 25th, starting at 6PM. The goal for the meeting, in addition to socializing with fellow Rubyists, would be for us all to talk about the role we could play in charlotte.rb, if any.