Category Misc.

Throwback Thursday Revit Style

think itchange itbuild itRevit! I was recently gifted with some historical Revit early days shirts by Autodesk colleague and early Revit team member Rick Rundell. I believe the shirts are from the Revit 1.0 days circa 2000’ish. I’m going to…

Sweet Layover Last Evening

On my flight back to my Portland Oregon home from Toronto I had a 55 minute layover in Salt Lake City. My kids live near there including my youngest, my amazing 17 year old daughter. My sweet daughter drove to…

What a Difference a Week Makes

The smoke from the west coast forest fires has cleared up in Portland Oregon. Here is a composited image from our Autodesk Portland office showing two weeks ago versus now.

Bad Marketing

I would call this more a viral marketing, literally viral..  I personally seen this sticker at Portland’s Hawthorne Street Festival last weekend. We had a great time at the street festival with all the local artists and vendors but the…

Moore or Less

I was thinking last night about how technology has changed over the years, and how Moore’s Law has apparently been broken as computer CPUs are not doubling computational power each 18 months. We have not seen the transistor density and…

I’m Back

Although I was still checking in from time to time, I have been enjoying a 6 week sabbatical. Now I am just trying to get back into waking up early, commuting, and booting up my work laptop for the first…

Final Week Push and Getting High Altitude

I’m entering my final week of sabbatical (6 week vacation) and please ignore the bad example of me in the office writing this while on my sabbatical, but my fav backpacking and outdoor gear shop Next Adventure is a couple…

Sabbatical Week One

Greetings following my first week of sabbatical, and what a week it was! First thing I did was that I went looking for a new personal laptop to take on my adventures, since my MacBook from 2011 was not very…

Hello Summer

I am so grateful to have an employer that understands that employees need time away to refresh, recharge, and come back with a renewed energy and passion. Some of us use the time to go spend time with friends, family,…