I can hardly believe that it has been three months, but hey, time flies when you have the best job of your (relatively short) career, and you are working with awesome people.
This summer was all about the new product we are making at the Creek. It was long hours, fights about features, bickering about color choices, moving the same pixels over and over, and just about the most fun I could ever imagine having at work.
My team also had the privilege of working with absolutely amazing interns. This group of kids, and I use the term lovingly, made a mad dash from a highly imperfect spec to an amazingly polished product in just three months. The team of old fogies (average age: 26) they left in their jet wash has spent the last few weeks cleaning it up and we are marching towards a closed beta in the near future (read: weeks).
I learned an incredible amount working on this project, and I hope to share a bunch of stories over the coming months. That is, of course, if I can find the time to organize these “learnings” into a few posts that I think could be helpful to anyone other than me (an audience of one isn’t so bad, I guess).
All this means that photography has taken a bit of a back seat, but I actually have taken a bunch of shots. They sit, unedited, on my computer at home just waiting for me to mold them into something fit for human consumption. My goal for the next 7 days is to get them edited and start posting any that I think are promising.
I have high hopes for the purported psychological motivation that comes from making a public promise…
Published on
June 3, 2009 in
General.
It is a bit last-minute in terms of planning, but I will be participating in the Relay for Life event in Yonkers on Friday night to help raise money for cancer research, treatment, and prevention. My participation was inspired by my Uncle Steve, a lung cancer survivor.
I am asking that anyone who can, head to http://is.gd/MrR3 and make a donation.
What is Relay for Life?
Teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event. Relays are an overnight event, up to 24 hours in length. Teams of people from all walks of life have fun while raising much-needed funds to fight cancer and raise awareness of cancer prevention and treatment.
More…
Anyone who donates$15 or more can email me or direct message me on Twitter and I will send you a free 8×10 of any of my photos on flickr. I have organized my most popular (or favorite) photos into a single group to help in the picking: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonrr/sets/72157604504206035/
If you don’t want to donate online, and you will be seeing me in the next few days, let me know and we can work something else out (I think I can whip up an offline donation form if you are tax conscious).
Thanks for your support!
Published on
May 13, 2007 in
General.
I have had several blogs now, and they have fallen by the wayside or disappeared completely. I think the reason was that I tried very hard to write within a theme or with no theme at all. I wanted to make reading them enjoyable for people who were interested in my topic of choice, or I wanted to make them personally relevant.
Both of these approaches have failed to a certain degree. In the interest of a fresh start, I have decided to use a different format and just start recording ideas that could belong to both classifications. I have recently started work at Fog Creek Software and am, for the first time in a long while, being asked to think critically about ’stuff’. Some topics and thoughts seem important at the time, and some things don’t seem significant at all, and still others don’t seem salient until much later when I have my “Oh shit, I wish I could remember what we said…” moment. I hope that this will be a place for me, initially, and others, later, to collect and respond to ideas.
