And now an example of how I write my ruby code and get it down to the bare, readable, minimum code needed. This is real life code taken from a website I'm building, but I've changed the objects to a blog post because more people will relate to that easier.

Issue

So mother (who can't program) just posed me the question

No not my computer, me. I've managed to pickup an acute coryza virus. It causes /dev/random to constantly pass data to /Volumes/nose. I don't think I got this from reading email, but I'm pretty sure it was a windows user who passed it to me.