P.S. I did not get an email (I checked my Junk folder), but that is fine with me. Email sucks.

I think if you look at what he’s saying in the totality of his public statements, these statements are completely consistent with what I believe are his heartfelt beliefs, and have a lot less to do with Rails per se, than egregious Internet behavior he has very publicly and consistently criticized in his prior statements. (See Utu) for more.)

I have seen him speak publicly, but don’t know him personally. I strongly suspect a lot if his delivery is to further reinforce, through dark parody, what he thinks is wrong with a lot of the stuff we see in chat rooms, email and blogs.

He’s consistent, publicly in person as well as his Internet communications, in direct contrast to many of the communications he sees from many others. The “over-the-top” delivery is deliberately and ironically something you would normally only see from a lurker hiding behind a cloak of anonymity.

Zed is a man on a mission, for sure.