Heroes - mo khan

So there we were... my wife and I were sitting on the couch watching "Evan Almighty". Afterwards, we turned off the movie and I decided to check my email before going to bed and I noticed that I had received a comment from a... Mr. Chad Myers

I got so excited, of course I recognized the name. I started reading Los Techies a few months ago and have enjoyed reading several of Mr. Myers' posts. Most recently his post on the first 2 hours of TDD. It was last week when I read it, after reading it I read "Getting Over The TDD Hump" by Jimmy Bogard. After reading that I emailed my old manager and said:

Ahhh... the good ol' days. This post reminded me of last year...

Back to where I was going... I got so excited that an author whom I read regularly took enough interest in what I was doing to drop a few lines. (Yes geeky I know, my wife just looks at me with a raised eye brow when I go into my geek speak schhpiel about the blogosphere.)

What I'm trying to say is that there's so many hard working people out there who work hard to share good material. Who work hard to share their experiences... Although, I think of so many people on my blogroll as heroes, they're all just good people in the end. Many of whom would rather not be titled hero and would rather just a thank you.

So Thank You too all the great authors, who take the time to drop a post here and there to share their experience, the lessons they've learned and for keeping me company when I can't seem to articulate what I'm trying to say. Chances are there's a post some where out there than can convey the feeling that I'm trying to get across, so when I can't communicate the message effectively on the team I can point them to a post that can.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like we all want to have someone to look up to. We're constantly putting people up on a pedestal then dropping them and moving on to the next hero.So how do you properly show appreciation to those, whom you feel you've learned a great deal from.

How do you say... Thank you so much <insert name here>, you've re-ignited my passion for <insert passion here> and you've shown me that it is possible to love what I do and be excited about getting up in the morning.

Thank you all!