today is my last day at joyent. (maybe coincidentally it’s also bill g’s last day…) it’s been a great ride. i’ve seen the company go from the founding team of 4 people in early 2005 to around 25 at present count. we’ve grown in ways you only hope to when you start something. but as our direction has shifted from tin (just kidding) end-user apps to automating a cloud computing infrastructure, and as my job has transition from developer and ui designer to director of software, i realized it was time for something new. ‘get back to my roots’ as it were. i’ve loved it + am really proud of what we’ve been able to do (without vc!). good luck to all my fellow joyeurs in the future.
what’s next? well, after some time off i’ll be back at the web game, making some awesome, useful sites for the internets. i can’t wait.
“ I shall remember this hour of peace - the strawberries, the bowl of milk, your faces in the dusk.. I shall remember our words and shall bear this memory between my hands as carefully as a bowl of fresh milk. And this will be a sign of great contentment.
Block in The Seventh Seal
joyent connector code visualized with processing and code_swarm and girl talk this is a visualization of the source code commits to joyent’s connector suite of online apps. we open-sourced it a year ago and this is the activity we’ve had on it since then. i was on the founding team at joyent and have spent a large part of the past 3.5 years working on it.
björk + sigur rós concert in reykjavík this saturday.
friday is my last day of work at joyent, then i head straight to the airport for a few days in iceland. björk is my all-time favorite musician, and sigur rós is pretty close. that night sunset is at 12:01 am and the sun rises just 3 hours and 2 minutes later!! i can’t wait.
“ Amanda Ireland, who graduated from Gloucester High on June 8… gave birth her freshman year and says some of her now pregnant schoolmates regularly approached her in the hall, remarking how lucky she was to have a baby. “They’re so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally,” Ireland says. “I try to explain it’s hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m.
Boston Area Teens Had Pregnancy Pact (via jamiew)
“ It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling in her Harvard Commencement Speech (via sourjayne)
This is how an average, 20-something year-old young man speaks:
“I just had lunch with my friend Tom.”
This how an NYC-based Web/Tech affiliated 20-something year-old young man speaks:
Twitter: (12:15pm) On my way to Balthazar for big meeting to discuss how to kick ass 2.0
Twitter: (12:18pm) Just passed Bill Murray on Houston, I think. Looks old.
Twitter: (12: 31pm) At lunch with @TOM_999. This brilliant genius mind is going to be changing the very face of society.
Twitter: (1:22pm) Mission complete. Cannot believe how much ass we kick. Look out world, step out of the way.
Twitter: (1:31pm) Walking back to the office, listening to new MGMT remixes. RCRD LBL rules.
Blog: (2:35pm) [giant photo of a guy wearing a novelty T-shirt and/or hoodie, eating lunch] This is Tom. Everything you thought you knew about the world is about to be transformed by this visionary young man. His Facebook widget is going to change your life.
Yes! Yuck.
yeah. i’m a fan of keeping it really real. but if you can use twitter, listen to mgmt, have lunch meetings with people trying to change + improve the world, and you manage to remain down-to-earth + can keep it real, we’ll get along. if you twitter more than 3-4 times in a day about self-absorbed bullshit we probably won’t.
my friend patrick ewing is visiting tokyo right now + i promised him a list of ten things i wouldn’t miss. it’s not in order, and is amazingly incomplete. i figured i would share it.
stay in a capsule hotel + ryokan
walk takeshta-dori in harajuku
see everything in shibuya
take the shinkansen or whatever’s faster
eat fugu, sashimi, street crepes, tonkatsu, shabu-shabu, golden curry
buy hot and cold beverages (and whatever else) from vending machines
worth watching, especially for the clips of his films. a reminder that good ideas are everywhere, especially if you grab on to the parts that first come to you, and develop them, realizing that more will come later. (via melissa)
“ art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
lewis carroll, i think. also attributed to frank zappa. didn’t feel like researching this beyond a single google search.
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