http://www.renaebair.com Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:04:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I met my husband 11 years ago. I was carrying my guitar into my dorm room on freshman move-in day at the University of Southern Maine. I saw him eyeing my guitar with great interest. When he knocked on my door and introduced himself, he said, "Hey! I'm Adam. I ... http://www.renaebair.com/2010/08/11/my-husband-is-a-programmer-i-have-no-idea-what-that-means/ It's 6:00 am; the kids just woke up. As they eat their cereal, I'm leaning up against the kitchen bar, iPhone in hand, checking Twitter updates from last night and catching up on email. It's 9:00 am, and the kids have found a way to amuse themselves without me. This ... http://www.renaebair.com/2010/05/06/were-never-alone/ This blog post is a follow-up to my last post, "The Insanity of Choice." After many days of painful soul searching, we decided that moving to a warmer climate with more attractive housing prices was not actually going to bring us any increase in happiness. I reflected upon the couple of years ... http://www.renaebair.com/2010/02/23/the-sanity-of-decision/ I've never had commitment problems with other humans, but I find myself totally unable to commit to a geographic location; and the pressure to commit coupled with the inability to do so has slowly driven me insane. For many people, the question of "where to live?" is answered easily. I ... http://www.renaebair.com/2010/02/04/the-insanity-of-choice/ Do you use Vim? Emacs? Do you use Gemcutter for gem hosting? Do you listen to Soma FM? If you use free software, think about donating time or money this holiday season to support the individuals that put in long hours creating the awesome software that makes your life easier. Adam and I ... http://www.renaebair.com/2009/12/14/thank-a-geek/ I think it's fairly common for programmers to build applications to meet a personal need. When I found out I was pregnant with our third child this past May I didn't intend to spend my pregnancy writing a Sinatra application for naming babies, but I've had so much fun and ... http://www.renaebair.com/2009/12/02/naming-together/ Every girl wants her first time to be special. I wanted my first official Rails event to be something small, intimate and meaningful. I tried to choose my first event carefully so as to not end up in a place like Las Vegas, from which I would be coming home ... http://www.renaebair.com/2009/07/22/my-first-time-musings-on-rails-camp-new-england/ Could it be that truckers and programmers have a lot in common? The dream I had last night prompted me to reflect upon the nomadic life of truckers and how they actually share several commonalities with programmers through their professional lifestyle. Let me start by giving a quick synopsis of the dream: ... http://www.renaebair.com/2009/06/25/truckers-and-programmers/ When Casey Rosenthal, organizer of the Maine Ruby User Group and hacker extraordinaire, asked me to recreate all of Matt Aimonetti's slides for a CouchDB presentation, I was excited for the challenge. I had a lot of fun working with all 79 slides and replacing each racy photo with fps/frag-star ... http://www.renaebair.com/2009/06/21/perform-like-a-frag-star-at-maine-ruby-user-group/   Recently, a friend of mine emailed to let me know her sister-in-law was curious about Wicca and Paganism. She asked if she could send her my email so that she could ask me some questions. Since I think my response to her sister-in-law really exemplifies my honest feelings about religion, ... http://www.renaebair.com/2009/05/18/on-being-godless/