Note: She really starts cookin’ around 1:20.

Enjoy.

Now that it’s getting warmer out, I wanted to switch to a Summer drink. So, I asked for your favorite tequilas. Here are the answers that were submitted. Hope you enjoy them as much as I’m sure I will.

What we got instead was the Internet. Astounding advances in communication. Things come to us.

Not a bad consolation prize.

Sasparilla Muckinfuss is now following your tweets on Twitter. Huh? Who’s that?

It’s not an uncommon scenario: someone follows you on Twitter, and you’re not sure how that happened. Of course, there’s a good possibility that they’re spam, but not always. Often it’s hard to tell. You can see that they follow 101 people and are followed by 523, but who are these people, and how are they related to you?

Introducing Twitter Statpack, a Jetpack extension for Firefox. Statpack adds a few more statistic to the Twitter profile page, helping you understand who someone is, and how they relate to you.

Ready to give it a try? Install Twitter Statpack today.

Note: You’ll need to have Firefox with Mozilla Labs Jetpack installed in order to use Statpack.

I love music. Every since my parents let me pick out a few cassettes from our Columbia House ’12 tapes for 1 cent’ mail-in order, I’ve been hooked. (I chose Thriller, Weird Al’s ‘In 3-D’, and the Flash Gordon soundtrack.) That’s why, when Aza approached me with a project he had been working on, I was so excited to join in. The concept: provide a way for people to legally listen to and share music, and do so in an incredibly user-friendly way. Flash ahead to the present: Songza has grown into a robust website that’s enjoyed by millions of people around the world. I’m incredibly proud of the work we’ve done, appreciative of the opportunities it has presented and thankful for the community that has supported us.

So why am I leaving? I’m working on a new project: a social network that allows people to send status updates to their friends, telling them what they’re doing…in 141 characters.

But seriously forks, I’m leaving so that I can return to freelance work with clients and to start a new project. The details of the new project are hush-hush for the moment, but I’ll be sure to announce them here when it’s ready to go.

Thank you to Humanized (Aza, Atul, Jono and Andrew–collectively and fondly known as The Humanoids) for all of the support that you’ve given me; to my friends and family for listening to me ramble on about Songza ad naseum; to my friends in New York who’ve welcomed me with open arms and taught me to completely obliterate my liver; and above all to the Songza community for making the past year and half of my life so wonderful.

Which one of these things does not belong? If you said, “the zeros that were used in place of O’s,” then you’re right! (Bonus points if you saw that the N is actually a modified R.)

This is not Photoshoppery — it’s official signage from the NYC transit system. At first, I thought it might have been the work of a prankster who replaced a couple of stickers for fun, but it turns out these are all over the place…..on too many trains to be a joke.

I’d love to know how these came into being? For now, I’ll choose to believe my own made-up story: a disgruntled MTA graphic designer came up with these on his/her last day, and it passed the lazy eyes of the managerial approval process.

If you know the real story, feel free to post it here. If not, also feel free to make up your own interpretation.

The other day, Jeff asked me how things were going in NY, and remarked that I’ve been an incredible schmoe for not having posted any/many pictures. Here’s a little photographic catch-up, so that you can see the things that I see. My morning commute…

It’s no secret to those that are close to me: when it’s drinkin’ time, our drink of choice is often Sparks. For those not it the know, Sparks is a malt liquor energy drink favored by those who are not sophisticated enough to drink Red Bull and vodka, but need that extra little kick to keep them up past the 10pm bedtime from a night of consuming beer.

Last weekend, when it came time to find an appropriate way of ringing in Shawn’s birthday, I could think of no finer way to celebrate this joyous event than by combining two of his greatest loves: cake and malt liquor.

Months prior, I had been reading about another sweet oddity: The Diet Coke Cake. Essentially, it involves purchasing an off-the-shelf box of cake mix and supplanting eggs/oil with a can of Diet Coke. Surely, I thought, if you’re able to make a delicious cake by using a can of soda, then a dessert of equal measure can be created with a can of Sparks. Turns out….you can. I submit to you, dear reader(s), the recipe for Sparks Cake:

• One 24oz Can of Sparks
• 2 Boxes of Cake Mix (I used Duncan Hines White Cake Mix, but any ol’ mix will do)
• 2 Packages of White Frosting
• Food Dye
• Decorative Goo

It’s really no secret: just combine them and cook as the package indicates. In this case, I chose to decorate the cake to resemble a can of Sparks. Note: Expletive and other decor courtesy of Jeff Skinner.