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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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Tim O'Reilly is a JackassThat's basically the premise behind Simone's well spoken rant. All the power to you, Simone, and I'd like to see him enforce that no compete agreement.Posted by Jake on 11/22/05 @ 01:10 PM
Posted in Funny, Interesting | 6 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 6 CommentsSimone said on 11/22/05 @ 04:45 PM:I liked your alternate title "Tim O'Reilly is an Asshole" better, Jake. ;-) Hey - we should /. it! Me thinks ole' Hemos probably still remembers me pretty well. Heh. Jake said on 11/22/05 @ 04:50 PM: If you bring down my server from a slashdotting, I'm kicking your butt. And I like the word I chose better then my original thought -- hard "J" sounds just sound more menacing ;-) Simone said on 11/22/05 @ 06:19 PM: Heh. Paul said on 11/23/05 @ 06:34 AM: "Jackass" has more punch, if you ask me. Everybody's an asshole nowadays, anyway. I liked the way you wrote that blog, Simone. If the popping of the dot com bubble was such a hard hit for the company, why did he go on to move the the new complex? Simone said on 11/23/05 @ 08:40 AM: Thanks for the kudos, Paul. :-) The reason why O'Reilly ended up moving into the new campus was simple: To save face. You see - Tim had been battling the city and a citizen group for years in court for permission to actually build on that site (the last apple orchard within city limits in a strongly agricultural town). He eventually did win, ripped out most of the orchard, and popped down 3 huge buildings. So aside from milllions of dollars, he had his whole honor and respect within a tight-knit community invested into the project. For him *not* to move in after all that, was unthinkable. Of course the buildings have been eeriely empty since - mostly because the projected employee expansion never happened, and due to the bad rep the location had in the community, nobody wanted to rent any of the buildings. Tim naturally still has his 6-acre farm he can hermit in ... jonah said on 11/24/05 @ 01:58 PM: Welcome to the real world Simone. You want it? Do it yourself. Post a comment |
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