It has been amazing here at pairodime.design - I have been networking with some amazing talent and have been helping to grown small businesses around the world through ecommerce development and serach engine marketing. I could not help but get a little sentimental during these holiday seasons. I found myself daytrippin' on the good ol' days.

I was born in 1978 so my good old days brought me back to 1984 - the time of Arcade classics like Dig Dug and Q-Bert. My family owned a TI-99/4A Computer, my brother and played on that machine from morning until our bedtime (8:00pm). This was our first introduction to cumputer language development. We spent entire weekends playing with code and trying to make Mr.Bojangles dance!

Its funny looking back on this now and seeing how impressive the BASIC syntax was. We were executing full function scripts at the age 6 on a computer that could speak to us (using the Speach Synthesizer add on component). I will never forget Parsec, A-Maze-Ing Race or trying to capture BigFoot.

I now program with PHP5, ActionScript 3, and all the webstandard javascript libraries - not quite Beginner's BASIC, but amazing none less.

Have a holidays - I dedicate this post to my Aunt Lita and mybrother Miguel, both of whome have spent years dedicated to this fancy little machine called TI-99 - (oh and my parent for buying it and realizing what they had gotten into).