A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

Well… Highlights might be a bit hifalutin.

- Finished Command & Conquer, Red Alert 3.  I know it doesn’t seem like much but it does feel good to actually FINISH one of these games once in a while, instead of just seeing something else shiny and dropping ‘em.  Plus the C&C games are all just top notch.  I still think Generals: Zero Hour is my favorite.  Dunno what happened to those CDs.  Downloaded  C&C RA3 sequel which came out this week some time (via Direct2Drive.  Digital download distribution FTW!)

- Hot Dog and French Fry Pizza.  Really.  Really horrible. No no, it’s so very much worse than you can imagine. No.  Worse than that.  They should sell t-shirts that say “I ate this crap and lived…sorta.”

- Discovered a new, really bad pizza place (see above.) Crust was too soggy, sauce was watery, cheese was bad, undercooked yet burned on the bottom.  FAIL. FAIL. FAIL. FAIL.

Ya know, I keep hearing all about how wonderful Ruby is and every once in a while I think about picking it up. But then I come across something like this and I come to my senses:

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  def download
    dl_opts = params[:dl].nil? ?   ‘attachment‘ : ‘inline‘
    dl_img  = params[:type].nil? ? "" : "_#{params[:type]}"
    dl_file = FileUpload.find_by_item_id(params[:id])
    unless dl_file.nil?
      dl_file_type   = dl_file.mime_type
      dl_file_ext    = dl_file_type.item.self_title
      dl_file_name   = "#{dl_file.original_name}#{dl_img}.#{dl_file_ext}"
      dl_file_path   = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/upload/#{dl_file.id}/"
      dl_file_title  = dl_file.item.self_title
      dl_public_name = dl_file_title == dl_file_name ? dl_file_name :
                                                       "#{dl_file_title}#{dl_img}.#{dl_file_ext}"
      send_file("#{dl_file_path}#{dl_file_name}",
                :disposition => dl_opts,
                :encoding    => ‘utf8‘,
                :type        => dl_file_type.content_type,
                :filename    => URI.encode(dl_public_name))
    end
  end

Ruby makes Perl look like English. Come on. That’s not software. That’s what happens when you throw a cat at your keyboard.

Sure, maybe getting a snippet from “RefactorMyCode” is salting the dig a bit but good god.

FAIL