From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2010-08-21T10:10:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Happy Intransition Day!

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On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:54:47AM +0900, Eric MSP Veith wrote:
> On Friday 09 July 2010, J=F6rg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Ruby@googlemail.com=
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> 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*.
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> I'm a real freshman to the Ruby community. I know "Why the lucky stiff" f=
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> the chapter artworks in the "The Ruby Programming Language" book and from=
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> his (?) guide to Ruby. Aside, he seems to be a mystery, maybe even to the=
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> people that make up the Ruby Community.

He was definitely something of a mystery.


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> Now, that there's some sort of opinion war going on, I'd like to ask a ve=
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> simple, perhaps very stupid, newbe question: Who is "Why The Lucky Stiff"=
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> why is there some sort of celebreation day? I mean, he must have done=20
> something extremely remarquable. I don't know about a "Matz Celebreation=
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> Day", for example (correct me if I'm wrong, I likely am).

Well . . . Matz hasn't died or gone missing (knock on wood).


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

He was a guy who, with almost every word he shared on this site and in
his writings on the Web, tended to cause Ruby community members (and
others) to question their preconceptions and look at things from new
perspectives.

This is probably a good place to start:

    http://whyday.org/

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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