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Chad just announced the premiere event of RailsConf: Why the Lucky Stiff is going to be there! Forget all about the keynotes from Martin Fowler, Paul Graham, Dave Thomas, and myself. This is the killer feature.

I had the great fortune to see a _why show at OSCON not once, but twice. Him and his band, the thirsty cups, delivered an absolutely fantastic show. Especially in the first performance at FOSCON, which included a song about install.rb that was so freaking funny we were all at the brink of tears in laughter.

But for RailsConf, he's putting together an all new show entitled The Professor's Pudding: Hotel War 1945 ...and other carefully guarded hacks. I have no idea what this entails exactly, but I'm positive it's going to be hilarious.

If you haven't had the pleasure of venturing into _why's weird world, then I recommend to wheat your appetite with his why's (poignant) guide to ruby. Unquestionably one of the funniest (and weirdest) introductions to a programming language ever.

RailsConf is shaping up to be a very special event indeed.