Rubyists always get the pretty toys.
You ended up with Zed, though.
Actually, I talked to him about librelist and Lamson in an email exchange awhile back. Cool guy.
I don't totally grasp his reasons for moving from rails to python other than culture, but I don't really care.
Too bad I work in Python at home and work.
Balls. :| Rubyists always get the pretty toys.