Marcela channeling Margeeka

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New England clam chowder… Is that the red or the white?

New England is white; Maryland is red.

Who is confusing my formspring with Google?

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Edit: My friend Jackie, ever the epicurean, pointed out that it is Manhattan—not Maryland—clam chowder that’s red.

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If you could be one character from “Foxfire” the movie…who would you be? ;) Hi!

Maddy, partly because she has the most amazing attic bedroom, but mostly because Legs was totes in love with her.

“You’re in my heart, Maddy”

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Good question, that “coder” one! So….do you take on any freelance jobs?? Or would you even be interested in working on a website for a certain illustrator/painter? :)

I very rarely take on freelance jobs because I value my free time so much (not going to lie, I’m a TV junkie and it takes up most of my time). On the other hand, I really like being able to use my skills to help out my friends so I could probably be swayed to take on a project for a certain—very talented—illustrator/painter.

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what is a “Coder” and what kind of work do you do?

A “Coder,” or the informal “Code Monkey” is a computer programmer.

My official title is Lead Application Developer. Almost everything I do is for the web (i.e. web sites and web applications), but I have created a few desktop applications thanks to Adobe AIR.

I work in a few different scripting/programming languages. For the most part, I work in ActionScript 3 (AS3), the language that drives Flash. My company does a lot of interactive e-learning projects and Flash just seems to be the best way to produce them.

I also work in a couple of server-side scripting languages: ColdFusion and PHP. A lot of people laugh at me when I tell them that I work in ColdFusion because it’s not really popular any more (hey, MySpace runs on ColdFusion… oh wait), but I have to explain to them that I kind of fell into it. The first job I had while still in college was at a Flash/ColdFusion shop so that’s what I learned and that’s what stuck.

When I found out that ColdFusion is also prohibitively expensive, I taught myself some PHP as a backup. This is the language I use if I do free-lance work and I’ve only very recently had to bust it out at work because we were developing something for a client who wanted to host the project in-house and didn’t want to shell out the big bucks for ColdFusion.

If you’re looking into becoming a “coder,” I highly recommend it. Sometimes it’s stressful because, c’mon, who hasn’t had a “WHY WON’T THIS COMPUTER DO WHAT I’M TELLING IT TO DO?!” moment? But the rest of the time, you get to watch something you wrote come to life on screen.

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HOW COME THEY CALL IT TAKING A DUMP AND NOT LEAVING A DUMP? I MEAN, AFTER ALL, YOU’RE NOT ACTUALLY TAKING IT ANYWHERE… FUNK DAT.

I was absolutely sure that this was Adam messing with me, but he swears it wasn’t him.

When did I start getting followed by a comedian from the 90s?

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What is the deal with dads and the dirty white sneakers. Is there a dad section at the store wear you can buy pre-yellowed white shoes.

*where

Sorry, Mr. Seinfeld, but that’s all I’ve got to say about that.

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I have found existing holidays to be insufficient. Please create a new one. Thank you.

I tried to implement a weekly holiday a few months ago. It was called “Time Machine Tuesday” and it never caught on in a big way. I only had one other celebrant (thanks Ryan), so after a month, I let it die quietly.

If I had to invent a new holiday—and I’m a bit wary of doing so; once bitten, twice shy and all that—I would declare every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to be “STFU About What Day It Is” day.

A solemn holiday where the only rule of observance is that you not mention the day’s name either in conversation or in social media channels.

As it was written, so it shall be done.

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What’s your most shameful guilty pleasure?

I guess this would have to be eating cup-noodle ramen almost every day for lunch.

I’ve confessed this to my mom and she says my sodium levels are probably through the roof, but I’m not dead yet.

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