Lots of stuff to catch up on, so I’ll skip the niceties.

• The changes in the Rails subversion repository have been coming fast and furious for the last couple of days. I usually like running on the edge, but today I had to stay locked to a previous version (3725) in order to keep working. Is this the final push to 1.1?
• I ordered my new MacBook Pro yesterday. Dual core, 2GB of RAM, and the 100GB 7200rpm drive. Feel it.
• Why the lucky stiff’s spectacular example of mentat logic has been integrated into Rails. I’m using it to do full renders in the new RJS templates:

  p = Proc.new { render_as_string :template => "/users/details" }; page.replace_html "user_details", p.bind(@controller).call

• Last thursday I decided to try a vegatarian diet for 30 days. If it works out, I’ll stick with it for a while longer. If I don’t like it I’ll switch back. Tomorrow will be a full week and I’m very surprised that it’s been so easy to switch. I’ve considered making the switch for several months now, but always thought that I’d have a really hard time find things to eat. Not so, and I’ve actually lost 6 pounds this week to boot. This is very surprising because I’ve been unable to lose more than 2 pounds for over a year now, no matter what I’ve tried. I’m at 224 lbs today. My goal is 200 and then I’ll re-evaluate.
• I’m no longer training for the San Diego marathon. I’m just not going to be able to make it at the pace my training is progressing. I’m still running 4 days a week and am planning on running the Portland Marathon in October.
• Did I mention that I’ll be in Chicago for RailsConf 2006 in June?
• I’ll also be at OSCON again this year, but probably only for the one day Ruby track. It’s too damn expensive to go for the whole thing.