From: Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>
Date: 2004-12-19T11:59:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is like baby Alpaca yarn...

On 04:48 Sun 19 Dec     , why the lucky stiff wrote:
> Jamis Buck wrote:
> >Tonight, I was telling her how pleasurable it is to read Ruby code,
> >especially as compared to other programming languages. After
> >a moment's thought she nodded, replying, "Ruby is like baby Alpaca
> >yarn..."
> 
> Remarkable.  I had intended to fit baby alpaca yarn into the (Poignant) 
> Guide (in chapter five's continued chapters of The Scarf Eaters.)  I 
> just scanned for it and realized I musta backspaced over it sometime. 
> I'm putting that passage back in.  We gotta cash in on these 
> subliminals, folks!
> 
> Jamis, I could use some juicer knit references in my next Scarf Eaters. 
>  How much do you guys charge for a brief consultation, wherein I sit 
> there and listen to you name-drop various fibers?

For a brief consultation, no charge. :) Besides which, this is for the
Guide! Anything we can do to help... perhaps even including a pattern
for a Poignant Cardigan or something, in memory of all the
now-hairless alpacas that made it possible.

- Jamis

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Jamis Buck
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