From: Eric MSP Veith <eveith@...>
Date: 2010-08-21T09:54:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Happy Intransition Day!

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Hello guys,

On Friday 09 July 2010, J�rg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Ruby@googlemail.com> 
wrote:
> Intransition wrote:
> > However, he did a really crappy thing. He abandoned this community,
> > without a word, without a thought. He deleted all his projects, lock,
> > stock and barrel. [...]
>
> Interesting. I never thought about it as a "dick behavior". But then,
> I never thought about _why as an online *persona*, I thought about
> _why as a piece of online *performance art*.

I'm a real freshman to the Ruby community. I know "Why the lucky stiff" from 
the chapter artworks in the "The Ruby Programming Language" book and from 
his (?) guide to Ruby. Aside, he seems to be a mystery, maybe even to the 
people that make up the Ruby Community.

Now, that there's some sort of opinion war going on, I'd like to ask a very 
simple, perhaps very stupid, newbe question: Who is "Why The Lucky Stiff", 
why is there some sort of celebreation day? I mean, he must have done 
something extremely remarquable. I don't know about a "Matz Celebreation 
Day", for example (correct me if I'm wrong, I likely am).

So, no offense intended, who is/was this "Why The Lucky Stiff"?

Thanks,
			Eric
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