I also noticed that if you rearranged the letters in 'why' you get 'hwy', which, if pronounced a specific way, sounds very similar to the Pacific island of Hawaii, leading me to believe that he made his escape there on the 19th, which you get by fully curving the bottom right part of the 'h' around to make a '9', flipping it over both horizontally and vertically, and placing it to the right of the underscore when propped up to give us the '1'. It was under our noses the entire time.
<a href="http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/images/the.foxes-6.png" rel="nofollow">http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/images/the.foxes-6...</a> :-(<p>Tall Fox: -Have you noticed that this book is basically written by a _lunatic_?<p>Short Fox: -Yup<p>Tall Fox: -Seriously, he's way too hyperactive. If he keeps at this frantic pace he's gonna burn out quick.<p>Short Fox: -Burn out? He's gonna shoot himself in the head by the time he hits 30.<p>--<p>From that kind of comment and the pace of his work (bouts of rabid coding interspersed with AWOL periods), I'm afraid he's bipolar. His only output (code, writing, mailing list contributions) in june was a single tweet saying that he was trapped in a labyrinth of his own design.<p>I sincerely hope he's alright.
I didn't know who _why is. Here's a link for non-ruby folks:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff</a>