Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
An Observation: The Paths We Choose
A diagram of two different paths people often take when walking to and from a destination
An Observation: The Paths We Choose … Sounds deep doesn’t it? I’m not a very deep person, not unless I’m in the ocean and my buoyancy chose to stay on land. In fact, what I mean by The Paths We Choose is, quite literally, the paths we often choose when walking to and from a destination.
This rather pathetic diagram attempts to better describe what I mean: immediately after parking your car you set off on a particular path towards your destination, yet, on the way back to your car, you rarely follow the same path; in fact, you barely come close to it.
Granted, this is only the case when a straight line between the two points isn’t possible.
After taking note of this pattern in my own daily routines, I realized that this was something I do all of the time so I figured it was probably a common, yet unconscious, choice that many people made.
Maybe I should just stick to thinking and writing about HTML mark-up and CSS.
This Dog is Awesome
Too damned funny not to post.
How I Became a Front-end Developer
In the first quarter of 2004 I was employed as a truck driver for Moynihan Lumber in Beverly, Massachusetts. My job was to deliver new doors, windows, and lumber to contractors and homeowners in the process of remodeling or building a home in the Eastern Massachusetts area.
I would arrive at the warehouse at 7 a.m., fill up a 24′ box truck with the first round of orders, and be out on the road making deliveries by 9 a.m. Shortly after lunch I would come back to the warehouse with an empty truck and fill it up with a second round of orders. By about 5 p.m., that second round of orders would be delivered and I would go home.
Lets go back in time some more, all the way back to 1999.
