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My name is Kate Heffernan. I live in New York City and work at Outbrain.

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August 13
pile: Vimeo is growing fast, by the end of this month we’ll have 600,000 users with over 1 million videos! Since January we’ve grown traffic five-fold, and now serve a million videos a day. We need some fresh brains around here to help make the best website in the world even better. We’re looking for superstar web application developers: Have you written your own MVC framework (preferably in PHP)? Do you enjoy tweaking httpd.conf in your spare time? Can you explain EXPLAIN? Have you worked with INNODB on tables with millions of rows? Can you tell when a machine is swapping? Do you have experience with cloud (EC2) or virtualized (Xen) environments? Have you changed your legal middle name to “scalable”? We’re looking for superstar Flash developers: Do you have OOP experience in a language other than Flash? Does the prospect of your SWF being loaded 7 million times a day excite you? You have demonstrable design experience? Have you built a Flash video player before? Have you built Air applications? We’re also looking for year-round community apprentices. We really want apprentices from inside our wonderful community, so if you or anyone you know might be interested, please pass this along. Here are our requirements: Be well versed in “internet” Know your way around the Vimeo website and community Be creative Like to watch and make videos Your days will consist of: Working closely with dalas and Blake on community support and answering help emails Watching and organizing tons of videos Monitoring the site and testing new features Carrying on “The Intern Net Show” Giving high-fives and getting coffee These jobs are located in the infamous Connected Ventures offices in sunny loud Union Square, Manhattan— you have to be in commuting distance. If you think you’d fit in, shoot an email to morlocks@vimeo.com with a link to your Vimeo account (yes you need one), some links to some work you’re proud of and a short description about yourself. best. jobs. ever. though Andrew’s a pretty tough boss.

pile:

Vimeo is growing fast, by the end of this month we’ll have 600,000 users with over 1 million videos! Since January we’ve grown traffic five-fold, and now serve a million videos a day. We need some fresh brains around here to help make the best website in the world even better.

We’re looking for superstar web application developers:

  • Have you written your own MVC framework (preferably in PHP)?
  • Do you enjoy tweaking httpd.conf in your spare time?
  • Can you explain EXPLAIN?
  • Have you worked with INNODB on tables with millions of rows?
  • Can you tell when a machine is swapping?
  • Do you have experience with cloud (EC2) or virtualized (Xen) environments?
  • Have you changed your legal middle name to “scalable”?

We’re looking for superstar Flash developers:

  • Do you have OOP experience in a language other than Flash?
  • Does the prospect of your SWF being loaded 7 million times a day excite you?
  • You have demonstrable design experience?
  • Have you built a Flash video player before?
  • Have you built Air applications?

We’re also looking for year-round community apprentices. We really want apprentices from inside our wonderful community, so if you or anyone you know might be interested, please pass this along. Here are our requirements:

  • Be well versed in “internet”
  • Know your way around the Vimeo website and community
  • Be creative
  • Like to watch and make videos

Your days will consist of:

  • Working closely with dalas and Blake on community support and answering help emails
  • Watching and organizing tons of videos
  • Monitoring the site and testing new features
  • Carrying on “The Intern Net Show”
  • Giving high-fives and getting coffee

These jobs are located in the infamous Connected Ventures offices in sunny loud Union Square, Manhattan— you have to be in commuting distance. If you think you’d fit in, shoot an email to morlocks@vimeo.com with a link to your Vimeo account (yes you need one), some links to some work you’re proud of and a short description about yourself.

best. jobs. ever. though Andrew’s a pretty tough boss.

August 11
A shot from my high school friend, Paul Stuckey’s photo exhibit, “An Everyday Encounter.” Macro photos of a phone book.
A shot from my high school friend, Paul Stuckey’s photo exhibit, “An Everyday Encounter.” Macro photos of a phone book.
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Hacking the T

pile:

Here’s the backstory (via adamgotterer)
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hmblog:

Went to the Redskin’s/Bills pre-season game this weekend. Saw what might be the highpoint of the Bills’s season - recovering a fumble on the kick off return. Nice new helmets though.

The nfl though seems to be yet another place for me to go and feel disconnected and like a tourist in america. Patrick and I were so out of place tailgating behind our mini surrounded by the last 50,000 suv owners in the country. I did make potato salad though - that’s very tailgate.

The first paragraph of Hadley’s post could be from any sports fan but from the comment about the helmets it is distinctly my sister.

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“At Droga5 in Manhattan, ‘agency people dress like well-paid teenagers,’ the chief executive says, in contrast to the era of ‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit’ depicted on ‘Mad Men.’” (NY Times Article about Mad Men - From Stefanie)
“At Droga5 in Manhattan, ‘agency people dress like well-paid teenagers,’ the chief executive says, in contrast to the era of ‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit’ depicted on ‘Mad Men.’” (NY Times Article about Mad Men - From Stefanie)
August 8
Busin’ to Atlantic City!
Busin’ to Atlantic City!
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zachklein: Stunning images from the Olympics Opening Ceremony via Nick Gray. These are so amazing! My favorite part of the Olympics is the opening ceremony. It’s always so over the top and even though I don’t really care that much about sports or even… national pride - sometimes I get a little teared up watching it.

zachklein:

Stunning images from the Olympics Opening Ceremony

via Nick Gray.

These are so amazing! My favorite part of the Olympics is the opening ceremony. It’s always so over the top and even though I don’t really care that much about sports or even… national pride - sometimes I get a little teared up watching it.

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Sorting Out Coffee’s Contradictions Yay! My morning coffee is good for me (well at least not BAD for me)! How can something so good be bad for you?
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Building a Technology Park in Baltimore by Rehabilitating a Neighborhood “BALTIMORE — Bulldozing entire neighborhoods to revitalize them seemingly went out of fashion decades ago, after the first mid-20th-century efforts at urban renewal were denounced as failures. But in the blocks just north and east of the vast and expanding Johns Hopkins Hospital here, that is precisely what is happening.”
August 7

Project Update: no update.

heyitseva:

So in March probably, I got on this short-lived kick about wanting to start a project. I came up with several ideas, all of which were ultimately trumped by Project: Stay Home and Eat Tacos (on-going).

Today, somewhat unexpectedly, I got kind of depressed about still not having a project. This grew into getting kind of depressed about my lacking in two big project-related areas: skills and interests.

My main interests are things that I’m good at (skills). My main skills are…..nothing. No skills. No languages or instruments. No remarkable art abilties, sportyness, or bookishness. No collections, no pets.

Does this also mean no interests? NO INTERESTS? OR SKILLS?? Terrifying

How do you start a project? How do you work on your interests and skills?

help.

Eva - I totally feel your pain - I think this is why I resorted to making beaded necklaces as a child (requires no skill) - but clearly you have skills: humor and writing are two that i can detect from this post alone.