2400 miles later
Nov 9 2008
It has been a busy last couple of months for me with a cross country move and a new job.
I drove across the country (the third such road trip this year) from Frankfort, KY to Alameda, CA to move in with girlfriend, Bay Area photographer Lane Hartwell. Who I’ve had a wonderful summer with driving twice together cross-country, including driving through parts of Route 66. Driving 2400 plus miles with two cats was a test in patience requiring a stop every four or so hours to give both the cats and me a break.
The new job is working as the systems administrator with Crowd Science at their new office in Mountain View ( I do get to telecommute too). It is a great opportunity with plenty of technical challenges to sort out and I’m getting to work with some really sharp people who genuinely believe in their product and work. Like making real changes in the way online research is done. If you are an online publisher and looking for an audience analytics service take a look at Crowd Science Demographics.
The new job included a new MacBook Pro maxed out on memory which makes running some Solaris VMs in Fusion a breeze for testing. Being a Python shop this is letting me get up to speed on it and Django. I’ve always had the opinion of eating your own dog food so I’m planning to build a site using BluePrintCSS as I have it laid out here as a template and migrate over to Django here very soon.
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