_Mark_ ([info]eichin) wrote,
@ 2007-10-22 00:09:00
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Insert New Hobby Here (alternate title: I CAN HAS BOAT)
I was reminded by catching up with people at the cider party that I haven't updated in rather a while... so:

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Finally got ahold of a boat! Just a tiny little one, but it's enough to get me out on the calm bodies of water around here so I can get at the marshes and photograph things that I can't otherwise reach via land. (This will include the Sudbury River, which is often described as "a long narrow lake" by boaters looking for more excitement...) It's nice having an alternate mode of transportation that, including all safety gear, packs easily in the trunk of the Mini :-)

The improved "reach" of the little Olympus has really gotten me to shoot more. Significantly more. As in, about a hundred pictures a day (skewed towards the weekends, but I rarely take fewer than 25 pictures on a random weekday.) Passed the twelve thousand picture mark some time last week...

As usual, MetaCarta is hiring - my second "spinoff" (full time release engineer) is succeeding well enough that I'm spending more than half of my time actually coding now - but we are growing in many other areas, not just "stuff Mark used to do" :-) (And as you can see from flickr I've had my weekends free for rather a long time now...)


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[info]cjsmith
2007-10-22 04:50 pm UTC (link)
Oh wow, drifting in the lakes looks so peaceful and fun.

How's MetaCarta doing, in general? Solid financially? Still a fun place to work?

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[info]eichin
2007-10-22 08:07 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yes, very peaceful (even though Ice House Pond itself is one tree-line away from Rt. 2A), and it's not like it takes any effort to paddle, once I got off the beach it was basically "flail around with the paddle a bit, ok, I'm heading the right way, just keep drifting to the far end of the pond and concentrate on the camera [and the geese]". (In a canoe you're usually fighting the wind, more than the water, anyway; the packraft has more of a kayak wind-profile, or even lower.)

MetaCarta itself is doing fine - growing rapidly (we passed the 50 person mark a while ago, part of the time I'm not coding is spent interviewing engineers :-) but not so large that I find it boring (and I'm still "important" without having to be a manager, which might not scale but keeps me happy :-)

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[info]cjsmith
2007-10-22 11:17 pm UTC (link)
Nice! That kind of boating seems like it would be almost meditative.

The startup I'm in is cresting thirty about now - we just ran out of desks. Definitely not boring yet, but I can see how it could get that way some day.

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