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Relay for Life

Published
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jason
on June 3, 2009
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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!

Starting Over

Published
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Jason
on May 13, 2007
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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.