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Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby
why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby, sometimes called w(p)GtR or just "the poignant guide", is an introductory book to the Ruby programming language, written by why the lucky stiff. The book is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

The book is unusual among programming books in that it includes much strange humor and many narrative side tracks which are sometimes completely unrelated to the topic. Many motifs have become inside jokes in the Ruby community, such as references to the words "chunky bacon". The book includes many characters which have become popular as well, particularly the cartoon foxes and Trady Blix, a large black feline friend of why's, who acts as a guide to the foxes (and occasionally teaches them some Ruby).

The book is published in HTML and PDF. Chapter three was reprinted in The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky (Apress, 2005).

Joel Spolsky
Avram Joel Spolsky (Hebrew: אברם יואל ספולסקי; born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software Trello. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog. In 2008, he launched the Stack Overflow programmer Q&A site in collaboration with Jeff Atwood. Using the Stack Exchange software product which powers Stack Overflow, the Stack Exchange Network now hosts over 170 Q&A sites.
Michael Lahti
Michael A. Lahti (October 10, 1945 – December 29, 2025) was an American politician from the state of Michigan. A Democrat, Lahti served in the Michigan House of Representatives representing the 110th District, which is located in the Upper Peninsula and includes all of Iron County, Gogebic County, Ontonagon County, Baraga County, Houghton County, Keweenaw County and Powell Township in Marquette County.

Marquette County, Michigan
Marquette County (/mɑːrˈkɛt/ mar-KET) is a county located in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 66,017. It is the most populous county in the Upper Peninsula. The county seat is Marquette. The county is named for Father Marquette, a Jesuit missionary. It was set off in 1843 and organized in 1851.

Marquette County comprises the Marquette, MI micropolitan statistical area.
Bay class
Bay class can refer to any of the following classes of ships:

Bay-class frigate, serving the Royal Navy from 1943 until the 1960s, the Finnish Navy until 1973 and the Portuguese Navy during the late 1960s

Bay-class tugboat, serving the United States Coast Guard from 1979 to the present

Bay-class landing ship, serving the Royal Navy as part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary from 2006 to the present, and the Royal Australian Navy from 2011 to present

Bay-class minehunter, serving the Royal Australian Navy from 1991 until 2001

Bay-class minesweeper, serving the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces from the 1950s to the 1990s, and also serving in the French and Turkish navies

Bay-class patrol boat, serving the Australian Customs Service from 1999 to the present

Bay-class minesweeper
The Bay-class minesweepers, also known as the Gaspé-class minesweepers, were a class of minesweepers operated by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and Canadian Forces (CF) during the Cold War. Their design was similar to the British Ton-class minesweepers.

The class derives its name from bays in Canada and was designed by the RCN as a replacement for Second World War-era minesweepers. Fourteen were laid down in 1951–1952, however six were subsequently transferred to the French Navy in 1954. These ships were replaced by six of the same name in 1956–1957 but were assigned new pennant numbers.

They were reclassed in Canadian Forces service as patrol escorts in 1972 and six vessels remained in service until the late 1990s, providing coastal surveillance and shiphandling experience for junior officers with Maritime Forces Pacific.
Marcelo Orrego
Humberto Marcelo Orrego (born 29 January 1975) is an Argentine lawyer and politician, currently serving as Governor of San Juan since 2023. He previously served as National Deputy from 2019 to 2023, and as intendente (mayor) of his hometown, Santa Lucía, from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the minor local Production and Labour party.

Intendant
An intendant (French: [ɛ̃tɑ̃dɑ̃] ⓘ; Portuguese: intendente [ĩtẽˈdẽtɨ]; Spanish: intendente [intenˈdente]) was, and sometimes still is, a public official, especially in France, Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. The intendancy system was a centralizing administrative system developed in France. In the War of the Spanish Succession of 1701 to 1714 the French royal House of Bourbon secured its hold on the throne of Spain; it extended a French-style intendancy system to Spain and Portugal - and subsequently worldwide through the Spanish Empire and Portuguese Empire. Regions were divided into districts, each administered by an intendant.
The title continues in use in Spain and in parts of Spanish America for particular government officials.
Hattian Dupatta
Hattian Dupatta, also called Qasba Hattian Dupatta (Urdu: ھٹیاں دوپٹہ) is a historical town of Muzaffarabad District, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located 21 km from the Muzaffarabad toward Srinagar road.

Muzaffarabad District
The Muzaffarabad District (Urdu: ضلع مُظفّرآباد) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is one of the 10 districts of this dependent territory.  The district is located on the banks of the Jhelum and Neelum rivers and is very hilly. The total area of the Muzaffarabad District is 1,642 square kilometres (634 sq mi). The district is part of the Muzaffarabad Division, and the city of Muzaffarabad serves as the capital of Azad Kashmir.  The district is bounded on the north-east by the Neelum District and the Kupwara district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir region, on the south-east by the Hattian Bala District, on the south by the Bagh District, and on the west by the Mansehra and Abbottabad districts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Breathtaking
Breathtaking is a British medical drama television series, written by Rachel Clarke, Jed Mercurio, and Prasanna Puwanarajah, based on Clarke's 2021 memoir of the same name on the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It stars Joanne Froggatt and was directed by Craig Viveiros.

Medical drama
A medical drama is a television movie or film in which events center upon a hospital, clinic, doctor's office, a paramedic, or any other medical topic or environment. Most recent medical dramatic programming goes beyond the events pertaining to the characters' jobs and portray some aspects of their personal lives. The longest running prime-time medical drama in the world is the British series Casualty, airing since 1986, and the longest running medical soap opera is General Hospital, running since 1963.
Saturn Outhouse
Saturn Outhouse is an EP by the San Diego, California post-hardcore band Pitchfork, released in 1989 by Nemesis Records.

It is the band's only EP and is currently out of print. All 3 tracks were included on the 2003 CD re-release of the band's album Eucalyptus, on Swami Records.

Swami Records
Swami Records is a San Diego–based independent record label specializing in punk rock and rock music. The label was founded in 2000 by John Reis, who also has his own radio show, Swami Sound System, on station 94.9FM KBZT in San Diego.
George Sampson
George William Sampson (born 29 June 1993) is an English street dancer, television presenter, singer, and actor. He won the second series of Britain's Got Talent on 31 May 2008 at the age of 14. He is an official ambassador of the United Dance Organisation.

Street dance
Street dance is an umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles such as: breakdancing, popping, locking, house dance, waacking, voguing, Hip Hop, etc. Social dance styles have many accompanying steps and foundations, created organically from a culture, a moment in time, a way of life, influenced by natural social interaction. A street dance is a vernacular dance in an urban context.  Vernacular dances are often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers. These dances are a part of the vernacular culture of the geographical area that they come from.
Something Nasty in the Woodshed
Something Nasty in the Woodshed is a 1942 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the tenth in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor and detective Arthur Crook. In 1942 it was published in America under the alternative title Mystery in the Woodshed.

The novel was adapted by actor Dennis Hoey into a play named The Haven. With Melville Cooper playing the lead role it opened on Broadway in November 1946, but closed after five performances following poor reviews.

Dennis Hoey
Dennis Hoey  (born Samuel David Hyams, 30 March 1893 – 25 July 1960) was a British film and stage actor, best remembered for playing Inspector Lestrade in six films of Universal's Sherlock Holmes series.
Yusuke Kanamaru
Yusuke Kanamaru (金丸 雄介, Kanamaru Yūsuke; born 14 September 1979) is a retired Japanese judoka.

Kanamaru was born in Tsurugi, Ishikawa, and began to train in judo at the age of 5. He entered the Ryotokuji Gakuen after graduating from Tsukuba University.

Kanamaru is good at Seoinage and Sode tsurikomi goshi. Since 2000, He got a gold medal at the Kodokan Cup, and has been a judoka representing Japan in the Lightweight category.

Kanamaru placed seventh in the men's 73 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Judo competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 15 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium.

This was the fifth Olympics for Driulys González (Cuba), Mária Pekli (Australia), Ryoko Tamura-Tani (Japan). The only other judokas to compete at five Olympics are Robert Van de Walle (Belgium), the judoka-bobsledder Jorge Bonnet (Puerto Rico) and Telma Monteiro (Portugal). At Paris 2024 Teddy Riner joined this group as a 5-time Olympian.
Boissy
Boissy is the name or part of the name of 18 communes of France:

Boissy-aux-Cailles

Boissy-en-Drouais

Boissy-Fresnoy

Boissy-l'Aillerie

Boissy-la-Rivière

Boissy-Lamberville

Boissy-le-Bois

Boissy-le-Châtel

Boissy-le-Cutté

Boissy-le-Repos

Boissy-le-Sec

Boissy-lès-Perche

Boissy-Maugis

Boissy-Mauvoisin

Boissy-Saint-Léger

Boissy-sans-Avoir in the Yvelines département

Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon

Roy-Boissy

Boissy-sans-Avoir
Boissy-sans-Avoir (French pronunciation: [bwasi sɑ̃z‿avwaʁ]) is a commune in the Yvelines department in north-central France.

It is the burial place of actress Romy Schneider (1938–1982) and her son David (1966–1981).
Peter Grosz
Peter Grosz is an American actor and television writer. He is most recognizable for appearing in Sonic Drive-In's "Two Guys" commercials, in which he appears as the straight man in a double act with improvisational comedian T. J. Jagodowski until it was replaced by families in 2020.

Straight man
The straight man, also known as a "comedic foil", is a stock character in a comedy performance, especially a double act, sketch comedy, or farce. When a comedy partner behaves eccentrically, the straight man is expected to maintain composure. The straight man is a foil, a contrasting character to the funny man. The direct contribution to the comedy a straight man provides typically comes in the form of a deadpan.

A straight man with no direct comedic role has historically been known as a stooge. Typically, he is expected to feed the funny man lines that he can respond to for laughs (and is hence sometimes known as a feed), while seeking no acclamation for himself.
Vanishing Point (Star Trek: Enterprise)
"Vanishing Point" is the 36th episode (production #210) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the tenth of the second season. Hoshi is on an away mission which requires teleportation for evacuation. Hoshi is the communications officer aboard the starship NX-01 Enterprise, on this television show set in the 22nd century of the Star Trek science fiction universe.

The episode explores one of the classic staples of the Star Trek universe, a transporter-gone-wrong theme. Ensign Hoshi Sato passes through the transporter and finds that she is slowly disappearing. At the same time, she is the only person who can see aliens planting explosives in key ship systems, with no way to warn the crew.

The episode first aired on UPN on November 27, 2002. It had a Nielsen rating of 2.5/4 and an audience of 3.78 million viewers.

Teleportation in fiction
Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. It is a common subject in science fiction and fantasy literature, film, video games, and television. In some situations, teleporting is presented as time traveling across space.

The use of matter transmitters in science fiction originated at least as early as the 19th century. An early example of scientific teleportation (as opposed to magical or spiritual teleportation) is found in the 1897 novel To Venus in Five Seconds by Fred T. Jane. Jane's protagonist is transported from a strange-machinery-containing gazebo on Earth to planet Venus.

A common fictional device for teleportation is a "wormhole". In video games, the instant teleportation of a player character may be referred to as a warp.
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (English: Liechtenstein Museum of Fine Arts) is a state art museum in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. The building by the Swiss architects Meinrad Morger, Heinrich Degelo and Christian Kerez was completed in November 2000. The museum is a collection of international modern and contemporary art and the national art collection of the Principality of Liechtenstein. In 2015, the new Hilti Art Foundation exhibition building was added to the Kunstmuseum.

Art museum
An art museum, or art gallery, is an organization, usually with buildings or spaces for the display of art from the museum's own collection. It might be in public or private ownership, be accessible to all, or have restrictions in place. Although primarily concerned with visual art, art museums are often used as a venue for other cultural exchanges and artistic activities, such as lectures, jewelry, performance arts, music concerts, or poetry readings. Art museums also frequently host themed temporary exhibitions, which often include items on loan from other collections.
Lansing Lancers
The Lansing Lancers were a professional ice hockey team playing in the International Hockey League. They were based in Lansing, Michigan and played their games at Metro Ice Arena. They were a member of the league during the 1974–1975 season, after moving from Toledo, Ohio, where it played as the Toledo Blades from 1963 to 1970, and the Toledo Hornets from 1970 to 1974. The team suspended operations during the season on January 16, 1975. They had played only forty-one out of seventy-five games.

International Hockey League
The International Hockey League (IHL) was a minor professional ice hockey league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1945 to 2001. The IHL served as the National Hockey League (NHL)'s alternate farm system to the American Hockey League (AHL). After 56 years of operation, financial instability led to the league's demise. Six of the surviving seven teams merged into the AHL in 2001.
2002 Memorial Cup
The 2002 Memorial Cup occurred May 18–26 at the Guelph Sports and Entertainment Centre in Guelph, Ontario. It was the 84th annual Memorial Cup competition and determined the major junior ice hockey champion of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). It featured the host team, the Guelph Storm, as well as the winners of the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League: the Erie Otters, Victoriaville Tigres and the Kootenay Ice respectively. The Kootenay Ice won their first Memorial Cup, beating the Victoriaville Tigres in the final.

Erie Otters
The Erie Otters are a major junior ice hockey team based in Erie, Pennsylvania. They compete in the Midwest Division of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) and are one of three American-based teams in the league. The team's name references the North American river otter, a species native to the Lake Erie region. The Otters play their home games at Erie Insurance Arena, located in downtown Erie, adjacent to UPMC Park and the Warner Theatre.

The Otters have won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions twice, in the 2001–02 and 2016–17 seasons. They were Western Conference champions and recipients of the Wayne Gretzky Trophy in 2014–15 and 2016–17. The team also earned the Hamilton Spectator Trophy for finishing first overall in the regular-season standings in 2000–01, 2015–16, and 2016–17, and secured multiple Holody Trophy titles as Midwest Division champions.
Kumara (surname)
Kumara is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ajith Kumara (born 1973), Sri Lankan politician

Dinesh Kumara (born 1983), Sri Lankan cricketer

Malith Kumara (born 1989), Sri Lankan cricketer

Manjula Kumara (born 1984), Sri Lankan high jumper

Pradeep Kumara (born 1972), Sri Lankan cricketer

Prasad Kumara (born 1978), Sri Lankan cricketer

Rohan Pradeep Kumara (born 1975), Sri Lankan athlete

Yoshan Kumara (born 1990), Sri Lankan cricketer

Malith Kumara
Malith Kumara (full name Heema Hewage Malith Kumara Silva; born 14 November 1989) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who plays for Police Sports Club. He was born in Panadura.

Kumara has made a single first-class appearance for the side during the 2009–10 season, against Moratuwa Sports Club. He did not bat in the match, but bowled four overs, conceding 21 runs.
Tušimice Power Station
Tušimice Power Station (Czech: Elektrárna Tušimice) is a lignite-fired power station in Tušimice, part of the town Kadaň in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It is owned and operated by ČEZ Group.

The first power station in Tušimice (Tušimice I) was commissioned in 1963–1964. The current power station (Tušimice II) was commissioned in 1973–1974. The power station consists of four generation units with a capacity of 200 MW each. Its turbines and generators are produced by Škoda, and steam boilers are produced by Vítkovické železárny. Tušimice II has a 300-metre (980 ft) flue-gas stack built in 1974.

The power station is supplied by lignite from the local Nástup–Tušimice Mines.

Turbine
A turbine (/ˈtɜːrbaɪn/ or /ˈtɜːrbɪn/) (from the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, or Latin turbo, meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The work produced can be used for generating electrical power when combined with a generator. A turbine is a turbomachine with at least one moving part called a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades so that they move and impart rotational energy to the rotor.

Gas, steam, and water turbines have a casing around the blades that contains and controls the working fluid. Modern steam turbines frequently employ both reaction and impulse in the same unit, typically varying the degree of reaction and impulse from the blade root to its periphery.
World's Largest Frying Pan
World's Largest Frying Pan, also known as Washington's Largest Frying Pan, is a public sculpture of a frying pan in Long Beach, Washington. It was created in 1941 by the Northwest Copper and Sheet Metal Works. It is not actually the world's largest frying pan, although it is the only large frying pan that has been used to cook food. It is also older than all other frying pans that claim to be the largest, making it the World's Oldest Largest Frying Pan.

Frying pan
A frying pan, also called frypan or skillet, is a flat-bottomed cookware used for frying, searing and browning foods. It typically ranges from 20 to 30 cm (8 to 12 in) in diameter with relatively low sides that flare outwards, a long handle and no lid. Larger pans may have a small loop handle on the opposite side to the main handle. A pan of similar dimensions, but with less flared, more vertical sides and often with a lid, is called a sauté pan. While a sauté pan can be used as a frying pan, it is designed for lower-heat cooking.
Sinigapuna
Sinigapuna is a Filipino rice dish cooked with turmeric and other spices. It originates from Kalagan (or Caragan) people of the Caraga and Davao Regions of Mindanao. It is similar to the Maranao kuning, and Indonesian nasi kuning.

Maranao people
The Maranao people (Maranao: Bangsa Mëranaw, Jawi: ماراناو‎; Filipino: mga Maranaw), also spelled Meranaw, Maranaw, and Mëranaw, is a predominantly Muslim Filipino and Austronesian ethnic group native to the region around Lanao Lake in the island of Mindanao. They are known for their artwork, weaving, wood, plastic and metal crafts and epic literature, the Darangen. They are ethnically and culturally closely related to the Iranun people and Maguindanao people, all three groups being denoted speaking Danao languages and giving name to the island of Mindanao. They are grouped with other Moro people due to their shared religion.
Corruption in Burundi
Corruption is widespread in Burundi at all levels of government. The problem is deeply entrenched and manifests in various ways, including transactional bribery involving civilians, extortion by Imbonerakure members, and large-scale embezzlement of state funds and foreign aid by political elites. Instances of corruption have occurred before colonial times, and has persisted during the colonial period, and has remained persistent in the contemporary era. The country is endowed with many resources and a good geographical location that has attracted both trade and commerce, and at the same time encouraged corruption and misuse of power. While the problem isn't new, it has worsened significantly since the end of the Burundian Civil War and the CNDD–FDD's subsequent consolidation of power, placing it among the worst in Sub-Saharan Africa.

German East Africa
German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika DOA) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique. GEA's area was 994,996 km2 (384,170 sq mi), which is nearly three times the area of present-day Germany and almost double the area of metropolitan Germany at the time.

The colony was organised when the German military was asked in the late 1880s to put down a revolt against the activities of the German East Africa Company. It ended with Imperial Germany's defeat in World War I. Ultimately the territory was divided amongst Britain, Belgium and Portugal, and was reorganised as a mandate of the League of Nations.