We met at a place in Greenwood for lunch. The past 20 hours had been spent in my truck, watching the miles from Texas back to Ohio pass by the window. Some sort of salad passed for lunch while we talked about anything I could think of, afraid I would run out of things to say to her. Standing on the sidewalk, she told me she and her boyfriend had broken up. Only a year or so later, when it wouldn’t stroke my ego, did she mention it was because she and I were meeting for lunch.
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About
Ruthless Automation is a name I swear I read somewhere, but have never been able to track down. It’s the way I want to approach my work – there’s never an excuse to do something by hand when you can make it easier with some up-front sweat equity.
Currently I’m a web developer in Dayton, Ohio, with a focus on writing HTML and CSS by hand, and enhancing things with jQuery and YUI where needed.
I love beautiful UIs (actually anything that’s done well) and hope to make myself into a designer over time, but want to keep writing code as well. I do that in Emacs and nothing else.
I’m very interested in mobile, especially the iPhone, and I’m learning Objective C on my own to try my hand at an app. The Nexus One is the second best phone I’ve ever seen, though, and it keeps me honest about web apps versus native.
Finally, I live with my wonderful wife and our daughter Grace. Being a father rewards me in ways I never could have imagined, and I try to appreciate that at least once a day.
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