Acts of Volition

I have spent much of the last five years working with a fine team of like-minded people. Fools and geniuses, we have managed to accomplish quite a bit. It has been, and continues to be, an interesting ride. Here are some random highlights:

• There was a time when our CEO IM’ed in late to work several times citing a “laundry emergency”.
• We spare no expense of corporate shwag (we now even have business cards that can stand up to the punishment of being in my wallet - not that I ever show them to anyone).
• We play The Final Countdown by Europe really loud when launching significant websites. We really do.
• In the heady dot-com days, we narrowly dodged two acquisition bullets, both of which were exciting at the time, but would have seen us living in a big city working as dish-washers by now.
• We go out for a fine curry lunch every Friday (a tradition that started with Fajitas, before our local faux-tex/mex motif restaurant was replaced with a faux-east-side-NY motif and we were forced to seek more authentic lunchables).
• We punctuate special occasions with low-quality cakes from local grocery stores (e.g. Exhibit A, Exhibit B).
• We spend a weekend each December playing video games, eating fine food, and planning the next year out in Cavendish.
• We don’t do all-nighters anymore, unless there is a hurricane or something (well, most of us don’t).
• We take pleasure in smashing obsolete electronics (example photo).
• We have met Jakob Nielsen. Some of us have shaken his hand. (I didn’t make this trip)
• Our current vice is Madden NFL 2004 for the XBOX on a large LCD projector. Previous (and possibly future) vices include Counter-Strike and Mario Cart for the GameCube.