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Please forgive me for posting a mere testimonial, but this one goes beyond appraisal and finally realizes me for what I am: a shaman. Listen to what I can do:

So I was sitting here reading this (poignant) guide/book on Ruby and in my mind suddenly I imagined myself in a clean, well-lit room looking at very pretty code on screen. Simple, beautiful code that worked, overcome by a sense of joy and freedom that came with it. And I stopped for a bit before casting the image away from my mind to study my imaginary self because he looked so different than the man I saw in the mirror this morning and thought, that’s the happiest I remember myself looking in a very long time.

Welcome to the mental planes of the all-seeing all-petaled red lotus. A geisha with fourteen arms will take your jacket. Here, you are undefiled. You are anesthetized. A polished, red hellhound gazes wistfully as you… as if… as if… as if he is a duck… Various WEBrick servers are tiled in mosaic on the ceiling… A monk passes you the class << self; include Tranquility; end... As the mixin takes its effect, your eyes spin in the direction of precedence of operators that flow in freely: modulo, xor, to-the-power-of…

I think we need to move away from converting Pythonistas and go after the Scientologists directly. At lowest potency, we are better than tea tree. We offer cleansing such that Melaleuca will be defunct within the hour. (The guy quoted is Juan.)