It’s a sad thing to have to announce that someone I would consider a friend, has passed away. A fellow Counter-Strike player from Germany, Toni Daniloski, was killed in a car accident stemming from a tire blowout.
This comes right after missing a flight to Shanghai to player in the Intel Extreme Masters Global Finals.
I had the honor of meeting Toni while attending the Arbalet Cup, and can in all honesty say that he was one of the most vibrant people I’ve ever met through the game.
Please keep Toni’s friends and family in your heart, and send your condolences. His team website can be found here, I’m linking to the article regarding his passing: http://www.mousesports.com/en/news/9403/
So it’s been a while (about 5 days) since I last posted, and a whole lot of very detailed and specific crap that nobody other than myself will care about has happened. I’ll break it down really quick; Counter-Strike team owns, about a week till I leave for Dallas (ESEA LAN!), watched a lot of Deadwood, I think Forrst is amazing and we’re almost settled into our new office at Lifeboat.
I’ve gotta get back on my grind to make mnir.com the #1 result for “Chris Keefer” on google! I’m slacking.
Expect more posts guys, sorry I started to trail off. That comes to an end now!
Finished! After close to five hours of moving crap I think we successfully got all of Lifeboat’s stuff to the 9th floor of the Garvey Center. Nobody’s office is really setup…
Well I take that back, Katie and Jen seemed to have gotten finished arranging their furniture… yeah.
Colt (my co-worker) pestered the owner of Forrst.com (Kyle) to speedup our acceptance a little bit, and somehow it worked…? I dunno how guys, Colt is a master manipulator…
Anyways, I’ve spent a little bit of time looking through it and posting comments / questions and I have to say that I’m thoroughly impressed with the community. The craftsmanship with which the site was made is phenomenal as well.
I’ve extended offers to a friend of mine to join the community (Cody). I’m hoping that Kyle extends him the same graciousness that he offered us Lifeboat crew members.
I’ll leave you guys with a couple screenshots, unfortunately they seem to lack the “WOW” that I feel for the site. It’s the community of this website that draws the “ooohs and ahhs”, not any function or design element. Although all of the design and development is very eloquent and well thought out.
Well, at this point small improvement is cause for celebration! Moving up the first page of google results has proven difficult, but I feel that with the last few tricks I have up my sleeves; metadata for every post, improved homepage metadata, and TIME, I think we can make this happen.
I’d like to thank and encourage everyone for using a Google search to direct yourself to my blog. I’ve got a feeling that when you click on my website while doing a search it is a boost to my rating. I’m not completely sure, but it can’t hurt anything. Plus now you get to scope out how we’re doing in the results with me!
PS – Still waiting on my forrst acceptance email. It must have gotten lost in transit.
I sent in an application for Forrst and you should too! That is assuming you’re a web design or development fanatic. I first saw this on Gary V’s shirt (in this video, remember newbs?).
Cody brought it up again today so I decided I might as well put in an application.
I’ve been doing a little bit of reading about it and I’m hoping I get accepted. It seems like the environment it harbors could be really beneficial for any web artisan.
So Jeremy (my boss) just traded books with me, I gave him the 37signals book, and he gave me “IT’S NOT HOW GOOD YOU ARE, IT’S HOW GOOD YOU WANT TO BE.” by Paul Arden. The tag line for the book is “The world’s best-selling book by Paul Arden”.
Something tells me I’m going to enjoy this.
I’m also highly involved with reading “Do you matter? How great design will make people love your company”; I love how they list the authors here: “by Robert Brunner and Stewart Emery with Russ Hall.”
Both books seem worth the read, I’ll report back when I’ve completed both.
My skateboard came in the mail today! I’m pretty stoked to hop on and start practicing in my spare time. Unfortunately I think the first time I’ll get to spend a good amount of time practicing (aka busting my ass) is gonna be this weekend.
Oh well, happy to have it and assembled. Still think I need to buy some new wheels and bearings, but it’ll do for now.
After a year and a half of working in close proximity to Jason Bailey he’s left us for TimeIPS; a company responsible for developing “electronic time clocks and attendance systems”. He seemed pretty excited to start work there, so I’m happy for him. Can’t say that I’m entirely excited to no longer have him around, but I guess I’ll try not to be selfish.
I’ve learned a lot from Gumby throughout the time I’ve spent working with him. He was the first person to spend any time explaining MySQL queries to me in depth, and whenever I had a question he most certainly had an answer.
His views on how the web should work are always interesting and well informed, and his passion for his work is unparalleled.
I feel bad for Jeremy and Colt, they have the near impossible task of finding a replacement for more than just a skilled programmer, but a good friend to us all..
This is my thank you Jason, it’s heartfelt and real. Good luck with the new position, and I hope you grab every opportunity that life offers you.
PS – I’ve always called you Gumby to all of my friends because of the AIM icon you used when I first started here.. The one where your chat bubble came out of Pokey’s ass.
