Demolition Party

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was finally dismantling the kids fort in the back yard. I got everything but the frame down, and now I'd like some help.

This frame was put together by dwarves. I've beat it, pried it, and wedged it. It will not come apart. So, I'd like to know if I can find a few burly folks to come over this Saturday and help me pull the rest of it down.

It'll be a lunch date, noon to about 3pm. I'll buy pizza (good pizza, from Verona's), and supply beer, sangria and soda pop. I'll supply a sledge hammer, iron wedge, wrecking bar, and rope, and we'll make sure this sucker goes to the dump.

RSVP! elf(dot)sternberg (at) gmail(dot)com

I'm totally sure there are spammers with regexes for that.

Business card revision: "Bootstrap engineer."

So, I've been thinking about revising my business card.

For those of you who've seen it, it's a messy affair, a pretentious scramble of pseudo-XML that proclaims I am a "web developer."

I was thinking of something much simpler: a glossy-sided card with a well-chosen font with my name, some contact information, and the title "Bootstrap Engineer."

It leads into my elevator pitch: "I'm the guy you hire to get your web-based startup off the ground. You need someone who can do everything from code your CSS to administer your cloud-based deployment scheme, who can recommend, deploy, and integrate a continual integration, bug-tracking and agile/XP management plan, while also implementing the necessary peripherals of any web-based scheme, like social networking integration, remote purchasing, authentication, administration panels, analytics, and encryption. I can do this in python, perl, ruby, or node, with Django, Catalyst, Rails, Express, or Zappa. I'm the one-man band that keeps a start-up's game of musical chairs going long enough, strong enough, for you to get the funding needed to afford more chairs."

Does it sound wrong? Or could I sell it?