It’s official – Disney is acquiring Playdom! Actually, it’s been official for a few days now, I’m a little behind the times.
And as official Disney cast members, we all get free passes to Disneyworld. Sweet! I’m still waiting to find out if they’re valid in Disney Tokyo or Eurodisney (does that even exist anymore?)
I’m hoping that as we move out of “crazy startup” mode into “part of an actual company” mode, I might actually have some time to start posting here again. We’ll see.
Wow, it’s been over three months since my last post. How embarrassing.
I’ve been busy. In the beginning of April, I decided I wanted to start exploring applications for the iPhone. So I taught myself Objective C. And then the iPhone SDK. Four months later, I’m very excited and almost ready to launch.
I usually use this blog as a bit of a personal journal, so I’m kinda bummed that I missed recording the past few months. But as launch nears, things should get a bit more interesting, so stay tuned.
For now, it’s off to bed. I’ve got a tour of Seattle’s sewage treatment plant tomorrow mornning!
Last Wednesday, nearly six years after graduating from Rice, I signed the paperwork for my very first full-time employee position. It’s been a good run, with a solid mix of grad school, self-employment, unemployment, and contracting positions, but with the economy going to hell in a handbasket, I feel like now is a good time to be gainfully employed.
I’m now the Analytics and Search Manager at Tableau Software, where I’ve been working as a full-time contractor for a while now. My work focuses mainly on driving lead generation through the website – testing and optimizing the website experience, as well as increasing traffic through search engine optimization. I’m excited about a few of the projects I have on the horizon, though it’s frustrating that I can’t be as open about my work as I was when I was just working for myself.
In other news, though, I’m thrilled to have great health insurance again, for the first time since leaving graduate school, which means that it’s time to start looking around for a Brazilian jiu jitsu gym again…
1. Baconfest 2009 was spectacular and bacon ice cream is delicious. God bless the Vita-Mix.
2. Reading an interesting book on neuroplasticity. Craig points out this means I may be able to cure my own faceblindness. More on this soon…
With my new full-time job (which I’m loving, by the way) it’s getting harder and harder to keep up with this blog. I plan to make more of an effort, though I do feel somewhat stifled by a need to present a more “professional” image. Though the devil’s advocate in me might point out that’s it’s too late for that.
I’ve been trying to use this blog mostly as a journal for myself, something to look back on in thirty years and remember what my life was like now. To that end, here are some things from the past few weeks that I want to remember:
Like I said, just notes to myself. Sorry, I’ll try to make the next post more interesting…
