iLike

It was a brutally tough decision, but after a lot of deliberation, consultation with trusted friends, and a bit of heated debate, I’ve decided with great enthusiasm to accept iLike’s offer. I start April 2nd, and I couldn’t be more excited.
Time to learn me some Rails…

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Opportunity Cost

This coming summer will mark 7 years that Cheryl and I have lived in Seattle. We moved out here from St. Louis in July of 2000. I was a year out of grad school and enamored with the attention I was given by a fairly small startup called Avogadro. It was founded by a bunch [...]

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Lost Hedgehog

I quit my job Friday.
I’ve been working at Jobster for nearly 3 years. I was hoping to make it 4, at least when I started out. I was under the delusion that I had gotten into an academic work cycle, with 4 years as the ideal milestone to make sure all systems were go and [...]

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RubyGems and Perl?

So, I’m installing ruby on my laptop, and when I get to the step to install rb-rubygems, MacPorts installs perl5 as a dependency.
Why would a ruby tool require perl? My initial googling provided nothing damning. Certainly, it’s not because gems is written in perl… Nope, just checked the gems file to be sure, and it’s [...]

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My latest malady

So, that last bit of navel-gazing was all just a lead-in to this post: I was diagnosed today with central serous retinopathy. Practically speaking, I’m suffering from blurring in the central vision of my right eye. The vision distortion is fairly mild, but my ability to read text on a computer screen is severely hampered [...]

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5 Years of Breathing 2.0

5 years ago this month I endured one of the more dramatic events in my life. I came down with pneumonia in both lungs, and was thisclose to being on a respirator. My doctor at the time said, aside from the elderly folks he sees, I was the sickest patient he ever had. I spent [...]

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What I Want to Learn More About Tonight

Markdown
TextMate
Blogging in TextMate with Markdown

… It would help if I enabled the markdown plugin first. And if my theme didn’t suck so hard.

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Back from vacation

This is my first week back after a 3 week vacation from Jobster.
A lot happened in those 3 weeks.
The time off encompassed both Christmas and New Years, and included the full week before and after each holiday. My wife and I had originally considered trying to travel during this period, but decided the cost to [...]

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Meet Your Future

That’s Jobster’s new tagline (replacing the longstanding “Great people know great people”), part of a complete rebranding of the site and service. Personally, I find this new slogan just a tad bit morbid, along the lines of the “Visit Alaska Before You Die” ad campaign. But I’m no marketer, so what do I know? Well, [...]

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Wise Words from the Honorable Dr. Colbert

I couldn’t tell you who gave my commencement address, and not just because it happened 9 years ago. But I imagine the 2006 graduates of Knox College won’t quickly forget theirs. I hope the sentiments of that address stick with them as well.
Now will saying “yes” get you in trouble at times? Will saying “yes” [...]

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