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.
Thanks Mom!
Well I’ve spent a few minutes trying to search for this guy’s accolades for being a speaker I should want to go see. I’ve found that he’s built a flash game involving moving tiles around, and has owned and operated a failed LAN center (his words not mine).
Now while I still think he may have some interesting things to say in a casual conversation, paying $100 to hear them when I can pay $15 and read his book (yeah, there’s a book too) about the disastrous LAN center sounds much more satisfying. I’m a little torn, apparently he’s spoken at a few independent game developer conferences, so I’m not saying he’s under qualified.
Loved the message. Another good referral from Cody!
For once something good came out of the ESEA forums, even if they don’t realize it. They’re too busy pretending to have an answer to questions they can’t even wrap their heads around. Granted I don’t think many of us can wrap our head around this, but if you can you, well then quit being greedy and write a book or something.
What does it mean to be successful?
If we as a society are so obsessed with being “successful” how come everyone I ask gives me a god awful response to this question? There are a few answers I’ve seen repeated, and I’d like to break them down and explain what I think of each.
Read the rest of this entry »
We did it everyone! We broke onto page 1 (granted, the very bottom) of the search for “Chris Keefer”! Congratulations!
Thanks for the recommendation Cody. So far a very good read.
I had to upload this to get it on YouTube. That’s how cool I am.
We got a new toy at work today! I got to register an account with CampaignMonitor. After playing around with it a little bit I have to say I am thoroughly impressed. It’s analytical software is absolutely amazing, it’s easy to use, and yeah.. I love it.
I’ve been playing with SEO for this blog (as you may suspect from my last post). It’s going pretty well, I made it my mission to be in the first page for the search “Chris Keefer”, and after four days of SEO practice we’re already at the number two spot for the second page. We’re getting there!
I got the time off today for the Arbalet Cup trip, really excited about that. Get out of town for a weekend and nerd it up with Angel and Andrew. Should be a good time.
Still waiting on that skateboard, stupid 6-8 day shipping crap.
