20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
An acquaintance of mine Luke Freiler shared with me an experience that I have had nightmares about. Luke was driving to work and realized his iPad Mini was missing and didn’t know where it was. Hopefully on the kitchen counter…
I just returned late last night from a week in Southern California with my kids where we attended a memorial horse race held in honor of my late grand father. We also fit in a visit with a friend and…
This past weekend I spent some time underwater scuba diving and picking up debris in the small Spanish Oaks Reservoir. The water ranged from 48-52 degrees Fahrenheit. I was fine scuba diving in a 7mm wetsuit with a hood and…
This week was a tough one for me and my laptop. On Tuesday my machine started acting wonky where Windows explorer would not show previews of files and then Microsoft Outlook would not allow me to type in the body…
Last weekend I went down to Southern California to do some scuba diving in the Pacific Ocean unfortunately a huge storm hit while I was there cancelling some of the dive boats myself and my friend Will had arranged to…
Yesterday was my birthday and I received literally hundreds of wishes in social networks and email. My Facebook timeline was so active with wishes I could hardly keep up and might have spent the entire day replying to each one…
On this long holiday weekend I started my PADI Advanced Open Water Scuba certification for certification. I can select 5 types of dives to get my certification in and I chose depth, night, altitude, buoyancy control, and navigation. I was…
Are you flying into Salt Lake City over the next ten days, and want to have some fun? Today the 2014 Sundance Film Festival is starting in Northern Utah. In the past I have met several independent film producers, stars,…
I am back from my annual week of rest for the holidays which many Autodesk employees take each year.
This year I spent more time offline which felt refreshing and more time with family, friends, and outdoors. I even started small scale wine making by fermenting some white and red wines and hard apple cider which has made for a very fragrant home with the loud sounds of burping wine fermenting vessels. Perhaps I will use my good friend Bill Adams' wine brand name he made for me a few years ago, the "Between the Vines" wine.
2013 was an amazing year both personally and professionally, here are a few highlights:
Several exciting 3D reality capture projects such as the Smithsonian X 3D & USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor Hawaii.
Back managing the Autodesk Beta Community as well as remaining a Technologist in the Office of the CTO (OCTO).
Several new amazing Autodesk products and Autodesk Labs Technologies.
Attended Burning Man and I am still trying to rap my head around it. It was not what I had expected and instead found a world devoid of negativity or judgment filled with amazing cutting edge art & design. I was amazed how many Autodesk employees and customers participate in Burning Man.
Remained very active at the gym and mountain hiking trails with my FitBit logging 4.81 million steps, 2,264 miles, and 108,175 vertical feet climbed!
In 2013 I did loose my grandmother and a dear friend and longtime Autodesk colleague Tony Peach.
I am looking forward to an amazing 2014 and thank you for reading Between the Lines.
-Shaan
While writing your own software or apps, or even coding your own web page is not for everyone it is for some a very enjoyable hobby or career. The Hour of Code for the Computer Science Education Week is designed to expose people to coding or programming in hopes some may find it as their calling.
In life we need to be exposed to a little bit of everything especially when we are young to help find our passion, talent, and where we fit in. Those who know me know that I am a huge supporter of getting more young people involved in design, engineering, math, and science. So here is an opportunity to expose someone to computer science which is mainly logic and math but a great career with many opportunities and fun.