11-05-11

Crickets

No, I know. It’s been a while. It happens. Can I just take a moment to say how awesome my friends are…and not just the ones who have been in my life for 10+ years. Faithful twitter friends are sending me emails to make sure I haven’t died. I haven’t, I can assure you. The truth is, I was cheating a bit on Twitter. You know how Facebook only lets you share updates on “like” pages to Twitter profiles? Well, up until their September debauchery redesign I had been sharing updates from my profile. I didn’t tell you that I was or how I did it because I didn’t want them to cock block me. I’m lazy. In a nut shell it boils down to this simple hack: switch out the numbers in the URL passed on the page that gives permission to share your like page updates with Twitter from your like page to your profile number. Voila! Lazy mans way of cheating the system. I assure you Twitter, I do love you and I am still alive.

Currently Mr. S.Gonzalez and his lovely wife are playing host to me in Raleigh. I was on my way to Pittsburgh last week when the snow storms hit and made the pass over the mountains impossible. So, being the amazing Gonzalez’: they threatened to take the tires off of my car until I acquiesced. Once they realized that didn’t work they bribed me with jQuery swag. Needless to say it was almost impossible to beat back the deafening sound of my nerdgasm echoing in my ears: “Must. Have. jQuery. Flask.” and my tiny <*SQUE*> of delight as stickers and buttons rained down from the heavens. Man did I feel like a nerd pimp when I borrowed his rolls of stickers and pranced around with them on my wrists like bling.

I promise I’ll be around more. My first trimester is over and instead of laying on the couch dying, I am feeling a bit better and hope to be churning out some more articles for Smashing soon.