Jenn Lukas — Front-End Developer

Practicing for a 45 minute talk takes a long time!

…or 45 minutes to be exact.

Or close to it. If you’re rehearsing your talk while eating a cheese plate and watching the Phillies game, then it can take 2 hours. Or if your rehearsal is mixed with well-thought out feedback and thoughtful debate from your awesome coworker, one Mr. Mark Huot, then it takes closer to an hour and 15.

I’m pretty close to trying to get to that magic number, though. And really, really excited to be speaking at JSConf 2010 in DC this weekend!!

The conference was a blast last year, and put on by tremendously smart and awesome people.

Plus, I’m going to have that boat song in my head all weekend…which is quite alright in my book!
Pirate cruise!!!

Hope to see some of you folks there!

Posted on April 15, 2010 at 10:15 PM in (252) Comments

An Olive Branch

As much fun as judging people is – sometimes it’s not so much as the actual performance I judge, but more like wouldn’t it be fun to say things like “narwhal privates” and “white hot garbage”?
I would like to say I think everyone at Cogaoke was super rad!!
Even the Billy Idols!! Even if they didn’t sing “Dancing with Myself” – which is what I was hoping for.

My bad.

Truce?

Posted on March 30, 2010 at 04:01 PM in Ways To Win Over Your Co-Workers and Loved Ones • (543) Comments

How to Follow Gold

Blinded by the Light is 8 minutes of amazing.

They build you up. You are belting along about deuces. You want to look into the sun. You imagine what “Gokart Mozart” would be like as a Mario character. But then what??

Don’t go through how to keep annoying pleasing your coworkers and loved ones withdrawal.

Here some sure fire follow ups:

Then a double shot of:

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Posted on March 11, 2010 at 01:21 PM in Ways To Win Over Your Co-Workers and Loved Ones • (96) Comments

Blinded By the Slides

Howdy y’all!
I’ve got my Texas speak on as we are heading to SXSWi 2010 today!!

If you will also be in Austin, come see me and some super smart people (Mark Huot, Brian Warren, Ryan Irelan and Kenny Meyers) speak on our panel: ExpressionEngine 2.0: Total Domination!

It’s Monday at 12:30 – it will be more (or less) exciting than listening to some dude talk about wine. We can talk about wine, too. Srsly.

If you don’t hate fun, I will see you there.

Bonus: this is the office soundtrack to get pumped for today!

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 12:56 PM in The Nerd • (45) Comments

Everything à la Al

Y’all remember the Wendy’s SuperBar? Was this a Northeast thing?
I think I used to eat my weight in pudding.
This commercial eats its weight in stereotypes.
Pound sign awesome.

Long live sneeze guards.

Posted on March 3, 2010 at 02:34 PM in (41) Comments