I’m going to turn 30 this year.

Then I pause and let them do a double take at the graying color of my hair, and then finish with …

… hexadecimal.

The joke goes over pretty well amongst my geek and programmer friends. However, when used in non-geek company, they just look at me as if I lost my mind.

Perhaps I have.

a Ruby program

before I even notice

is already done

These are almost the exact words of one of my coworkers, who after considering Java for a particular problem, decided to use Ruby instead. He said he just started writing a little bit of code and all of a sudden he realized that he was done.