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Re: One time at [blank] camp

Erus/Dusty — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:05:31 -0000

I actually listened to the that episode, and a ton of things rang true. I went to two types of camps growing up, boy scout camp and TN's Governor School. The former wasn't quite a good match for the episode as you go and mostly interact with people you already know.

Gov. School, however, was probably the defining experience of my formative years. It's a month-long camp with top science kids from all over the state. It has a mix of classes and social activities. Due to growing up in a small town, it was the first time I actually wasn't the outlier on the geeky scale and exposed me to more foreign cultures/religions/whatever that I'd seen in the previous 16 years.

One of the biggest things that struck home was that you take all these stories back and your "non-camp" friends just can't relate. One girl from my school got to go as well, and suddenly we were telling inside jokes/stories/etc. all the time, making everyone else absolutely sick of it.

As soon as I was old enough, I went back to be a counselor and did it every summer I was in college, save the year it was canceled due to a state budget crisis, including being head counselor my last year. Those summers were probably the most fun of my life. I met my wife there (she was a former student and the TA for one of the classes) and we were hardly the only GSS-derived couple I know. And i still have friends from there I'm in contact with over 10 years later. Perhaps more awesomely, each year I got to watch a bunch of nerdy, shy, awkward kids come into their own like I had. Best tax dollars ever spent.
-Erus/Dusty

Re: One time at [blank] camp

Ian — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:59:46 -0000

I went to Boy Scout Camp growing up and absolutely loved it. It was a bit different than your experience in that I had the same group of friends from scouting who would go each year too. But it was an escape, and now having kids of my own and looking back, I feel sort of sorry for the counselors and adults who worked at the camp. Herding a pack of semi-feral boys away from their world for a week must have been awful.

But I loved it because I got to do things that I never did at home. I learned CPR, orienteering, snorkeling, stuff that was fun and I didn't have the opportunity to do normally. Archery, shooting black powder, hatchet throwing, things my mom would've balked at.

We send our daughter to camp now, this will be her 4th year going. I hope she gets to experience new things and meet people she wouldn't normally. Like you, its a new group of people every year, she doesn't have a group of regulars and gets to be someone new.

Re: Return to the iSide

scH — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:45:40 -0000

amen sister

Re: Return to the iSide

Jim Barclay — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:01:49 -0000

Welcome to the world of Mac (I like to comment twice apparently)

Re: Return to the iSide

Jim Barclay — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:01:05 -0000

Welcome to the Mac world

Re: Return to the iSide

Ian — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:48:34 -0000

You're already pretty smug, so check that off the list.

Re: unemployed no more

scH — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:54:11 -0000

Thanks guys. I knew that I was at the right place after our lunch last Thursday. Really excited to work with such a great group of people.

Re: unemployed no more

rglazebrook — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:40:49 -0000

Congrats, sir!

Re: unemployed no more

miketempleton — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:12:24 -0000

I think I speak for everyone when I say that we're all excited to have you on board, Clint! P.S. Yeah, where was the logic in Cinco de Mayo as a start date? I guess you'll just have something else to celebrate aside from the Mexican army's victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla. ;)

Re: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-04

Erus — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:51:42 -0000

Re: version control. I lead a team of 3-5 engineers and we develop predominantly in eclipse. Since SVN connectors can be integrated into eclipse, it makes it very easy to commit/merge/update/see changes right in the IDE which is fairly convenient. We use Trac as our ticketing system, which has hooks into the SVN repository and has a nice timeline that lists info on every check-in (or ticket change) and shows diffs directly on the web.

Since there are only a few of us, we all work directly on the head 99% of the time. (Though since our stuff is service oriented, it gives us the freedom that new experimental things are usually in their own bundle anyway, and won't affect the main system until integrated).

Hope that was helpful

Re: help wanted

miketempleton — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:12:27 -0000

I know exactly what you are talking about. When I graduated from Iowa State, I didn't even look for a "new" job - I just took a full-time role at the company where I had been interning. From there I followed my boss to work for another company, then made one more move before where I'm at now. Each time I said I wouldn't take another job unless it really fit me and what I wanted to do, yet I seemingly settled for one reason or the other.

Though being unemployed is never a good situation or something I would wish upon someone, I think it does give you a chance to really understand yourself and what you're looking for, and to find that ideal opportunity.

Here's to hoping you can find that job at a company you'll respect and enjoy working for. ;)

Re: He’s Retardog

Oliver — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:32:33 -0000

Awesome.