This weekend was the rumble. It was 48 hours of coding madness, and it was a blast. We had so much fun. You can find our app here. You’ll need an OpenID account to access it. I recommend ClaimID. Apparently the Flickr and AOL OpenID interfaces don’t work with our app. (fixed!)

Considering that we only had 48 hours, a team member who had to bail halfway through due to other plans, a team member or two who might’ve been a bit rusty on Rails and/or git development, and no designer (except for my gimpy designing skills), I think we did a pretty kick-ass job. We were running on as little sleep as we could get away with. A couple of us brought sleeping bags and slept in the office. It was pretty awesome.

I think that our app is probably a little bit above average as far as all the apps people came up with, but there are some AMAZING apps out there, so I’ll be pretty surprised if we place. But man, it was so much fun. At the very least, we have a great start to an application that has a lot of potential to be really cool. If you’re feeling generous, go register to vote at the Rails Rumble website, and vote for us! =)

Everyone on our team took today off work. I caught up on sleep a little bit last night, but I’m still behind. I’m probably going to crash pretty soon, as I’m still exhausted.

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In other news, another couple of my friends got engaged (to each other). Another two bite the dust. It’s kind of par for the course lately. I’m happy for them each time it happens, but it makes me feel a little bit sorry for myself.

Coming down from the high of the rumble made me think about a few things. Today I realized that I have a problem with needing to feel respected. I get angry about things too easily. Things like jerks running in the bike lane or cars opening car doors into the bike lane so I have to go around them. People who don’t signal when they’re turning. People who are indecisive frequently and pussyfoot around decisions. Stuff like that. Why?

Because I have leftover issues about being treated like a door mat back in high school. I let people walk all over me because I thought that’s what humility was. Bullshit.