• interesting crossover group for the whiskey / maple syrup: two artists, a programmer, and a priest walk into a bar and order shots of syrup. #
• @popejephei yeah i know you’re not catholic, but "a priest" sounds better in a joke than a minister. i think. #
• @farouqtaj that is a uniquely modern problem. one that all too many of us run into on a regular basis. good luck! #
• @scootergirl have fun in The Big D. Any client I know? #
• I love that discovery channel "the world is awesome" ad. #
• @jeffargast that makes two programmers on the maple/whiskey theme. Should have started that long ago. #
• looks like I might talk myself into a macbook at work as of tomorrow. psyched! #
• twittering about someone twittering about feeling like a NY coffee shop cliche makes me feel ….. clever? http://snurl.com/28qf2 No not it. #
• @shobyabdi that’s what TwitterForce is for! #
• ok so should have some mario cart wii at home but need to talk child care and probably try to get some work done. #
• Looks like its going to be quite the weather tonight. Hooray. My dog will be going crazy. #

If you’ve been paying attention, you might remember that I did a little Paparazzi Force demo in NYC for a Force.com thing … last month? Yeah — almost a month ago already. Hilariously, the director of public relations — and update apparently the VP of PR — over at Salesforce.com found it today. Emails have been flying around in a generally positive way (fortunately for me).

“We thought this was way too funny!” said one.

“Great example of how to build an app in just a few hours.” said another.

“Genius!” said my boss’s boss.

“Tell me you didn’t get beat up a lot as a kid.” said a co-worker.

Ha! Never underestimate the power of a mildly amusing demo.

So Salesforce.com now supports SAML.  I am unreasonably excited about this.

More on SAML.

Sauces N Love Arrabiata, originally uploaded by ReidCarlberg.

Yes yes: More $6.99 organic pasta sauce. It’s pretty good. Sweet, a little spicy. Had it over penne, me with chicken the Lovely J without. We’re both sauce hogs so this 4 person portion really only fed the two of us.

Was is worth $6.99?

Meh. Prepared sauce can only be so good. This is probably as good as it gets, but I don’t know. I think I’d still rather make it myself. You know. In my free time. And the plastic still worries me (on and on, right?).

Maybe I should stick with Pasta Fresh.

It’s been a long few days and as Kate points out my Twitters lack any real content (it’s true–except for the one about maple syrup), here goes;

* Spent Thursday and Friday in NY/NJ.  I didn’t plan on being there for two days, but the day before I left I decided it made sense to be there an extra day.  Glad I did.  The customer meetings were very worth it.  Why?  Really challenging project that has the potential to make a huge difference to the customer.  Awesome.  Interesting tension: I hate being away from the family, but I love big challenging projects.

* A friend of mine called Thursday night.  Her sister had just died.  It was about 10 weeks from diagnosis until she passed. Unbelievable.  Just sad.  She was 41.  Carpe diem.

* Yesterday was Mother’s Day. It was awesome, the first one I can say I enjoyed in a lot of years.

* The Critter (who yes I assure you is of the two legged human variety) had his first shots yesterday.  Well, the first since the barrage of poking and proding he suffered immediately after delivery.  It was pathetic.  He’s holding up, but it’s clear he didn’t feel great.  Yuck.

* It having been a while since my last check up, I took the opportunity to get a physical yesterday myself.  No hernia, blood pressure fine, a bit heavier than I would like. In other words, all stuff that I knew.
Cholesterol and other genetic risk related tests come back tomorrow.  They’re usually fine, so I’ll be interested to see if anything has changed.

* Up early this morning on the new elliptical in an effort to stave of an early death of my own.  The Schwinn I bought isn’t quite the cheapest (and it was on sale), but its close.  And it’s pretty decent.  I’m surprised.  And grateful because I hate gyms.  (I didn’t always.)