Working With Rails

I knew I was special back in 1991 when I was still 11 years old. With only a piece of paper, I constructed an origami model of two buildings, one set on fire, the other with an airplane. It will be 10 years later when I would burn that origami model in fear, but in 1991 I only found amusement in what I created.

Early in high school I can play a guitar left-handed. I have already registered a score of 300 at a local bowling tournament. I can paint. I can breakdance. I am fluent in Spanish, Nihongo, French, Ilokano, Cha-cha-cha, Rumba and Salsa. Sometimes, I can guess what you’re holding by picking the first thought that comes to my mind.

With all these gifts, fame came early. I travelled the world. I loved and was loved. But there is always a price to pay for fame and fortune, and I would rather not talk about those years that came after, those events that occurred, those horrible things I did.

Suffice it to say I survived that dark chapter of my life. Now I am a successful programmer, the writer of an open source program that will generate your biography based on keywords you enter, such as origami, guitar, bowling, and MILLIONS. The software has been downloaded by MILLIONS, and despite it being free, rich and poor alike have donated MILLIONS for their gratitude.

Granted, I will be the first to admit that these achievements are no match to those of Hugh Gallagher, a man who once defended an Amazon village from an army of ants using only a hoe and a glass of water.

But at least I graduated from college.