interesting times
Dec. 4th, 2004 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightSo it Saturday night, and I'm still trying to put together a device to bring up to UNH on Monday morning for IPv6 testing. On behalf of a group I no longer work for. It was working okay, until I tried to add some patches for things that have come up in previous tests. And now it doesn't work at all. And I'm thinking that I shouldn't try to protect these folks in California from the deficiencies of their own code. (I'd previously taken it as my duty to get them the best test report I could. Then I told them what I had to change, and they accepted some changes, and not others.) Anyway, at this moment, I've reinstalled the product, and I'm recompiling from scratch. Again.
What I really planned to work on today was design stuff. I'm (finally) staring to get material for the Arisia Souvenir Book, so I should start playing with layout. I've also gotten a couple ads for the book, and I (barely) resisted the urge to offer to design ads as well. (I mean, Times New Roman as a display font in a full-page ad? Really...)
More immediately, I have this typography class on Monday, for which I have to make a logo for a classmate's actual soccer team (and she has to make one for my hypothetical restaurant).
Less immediately, I have to make a Progress Report for Gaylaxicon. Actually, the conchair wanted this to go out about 2 weeks ago, but I think we'll be okay if we get it out before Arisia.
I'm starting to remember why I tend to be so grinchy around Christmas time...
On the ++ side, we went to Francie's company party last night at the founder's mansion in Manchester-by-the-Sea, and it was fabulous. Nice guy, stunning house, yummy food, open bar, dancing, and a fairly cool bunch of cow-orkers.
This is one of those things I miss from FTP. My cow-orkers at Wind River are a nice bunch, and some of them are also friends of mine outside of work. But our office is way outside the center of gravity of the company. When I go to Alameda, I get the vibe of the motivated young professionals working at the center of the company, who are doing cool stuff that directly benefit the company, and who are getting constant interaction and feedback from other people who are devoted to the company. I suppose if we were a bigger office, there'd be more of that energy, but as it is, we're a bunch of middle-aged cynical farts working trying to collaborate on a number of project with similarly-sized offices in Ottawa and Calgary, as well as with the mother ship in Alameda.
While I'm free-associating, I should mention that the typography classmate that I'm working with on the logo project also happened to work at FTP/NetManage, starting just after I left. The interesting thing is that I was pretty burned out on the company by the time I asked to be laid off. But it was her first job out of college, and she loved it. And, y'know, that's just great - you really should love your first professional job. FTP was my first company, and I loved it, and I stuck with it far longer than was healthy. But if someone can come along, and find that sort of energy in what I only saw as the embers of company I knew, then more power to them.
What I really planned to work on today was design stuff. I'm (finally) staring to get material for the Arisia Souvenir Book, so I should start playing with layout. I've also gotten a couple ads for the book, and I (barely) resisted the urge to offer to design ads as well. (I mean, Times New Roman as a display font in a full-page ad? Really...)
More immediately, I have this typography class on Monday, for which I have to make a logo for a classmate's actual soccer team (and she has to make one for my hypothetical restaurant).
Less immediately, I have to make a Progress Report for Gaylaxicon. Actually, the conchair wanted this to go out about 2 weeks ago, but I think we'll be okay if we get it out before Arisia.
I'm starting to remember why I tend to be so grinchy around Christmas time...
On the ++ side, we went to Francie's company party last night at the founder's mansion in Manchester-by-the-Sea, and it was fabulous. Nice guy, stunning house, yummy food, open bar, dancing, and a fairly cool bunch of cow-orkers.
This is one of those things I miss from FTP. My cow-orkers at Wind River are a nice bunch, and some of them are also friends of mine outside of work. But our office is way outside the center of gravity of the company. When I go to Alameda, I get the vibe of the motivated young professionals working at the center of the company, who are doing cool stuff that directly benefit the company, and who are getting constant interaction and feedback from other people who are devoted to the company. I suppose if we were a bigger office, there'd be more of that energy, but as it is, we're a bunch of middle-aged cynical farts working trying to collaborate on a number of project with similarly-sized offices in Ottawa and Calgary, as well as with the mother ship in Alameda.
While I'm free-associating, I should mention that the typography classmate that I'm working with on the logo project also happened to work at FTP/NetManage, starting just after I left. The interesting thing is that I was pretty burned out on the company by the time I asked to be laid off. But it was her first job out of college, and she loved it. And, y'know, that's just great - you really should love your first professional job. FTP was my first company, and I loved it, and I stuck with it far longer than was healthy. But if someone can come along, and find that sort of energy in what I only saw as the embers of company I knew, then more power to them.
