Curtis L. Olson wrote: > One that I have enjoyed is following the Columbia river. If you > start from Portland, OR (KPDX) the airport is right next to the > river.
For those who haven't seen it, the Colombia River gorge is even better in reality, too. And while we're on the subject of Portland, I should mention my near-future plans. :) My wife, Alison, has just completed her graduate work in chemistry and accepted a position with Intel in Hillsboro, just outside of Portland. We will be closing on our new house and moving in three weeks. I don't have GPS coordinates handy, but the property sits about 0.6nm mile from the threshold of KHIO runway 2, maybe 200 feet from the centerline. This is the short runway at Hillsboro airport; unfortunately all we saw last week were planes in the pattern for runway 30. Hopefully we'll get the occasional overflight on short final. :) This is obviously going to interrupt my email availability during the move. My nextbus account should remain active for the near term, but I may not be able to check it. The plausible.org domain needs to wait for a DSL/cable installation before it comes back. Basically, expect me to be unreachable for the last week in January. Longer term, I may be fairly invisible as well. Obviously, I'm terminating my current employment when I leave. The cost of living in the Portland area is amazingly low when compared to the San Francisco Bay area; we can easily support ourselves on Alison's salary alone. And since the job market for programmers is very soft at the moment anyway, I managed to convince her to let me spend two months working on a game project of my own that has been bouncing around in my head for the past few years. Enough of the code-level design is clear to me (in my head, anyway) that I'm hopeful I can get something playable/demoable put together in that time frame if I can maintain focus. We'll see, sometimes sitting down and cranking away at code works great for me, sometimes not. I give myself perhaps 1 in 10 odds of ever getting payed for this. But if things go well (from my perspective), I won't have time available for leisure pursuits like FlightGear in the near term. I'm not leaving forever, but the idea of working full time on something that is 100% mine is just too attractive. If it doesn't pan out after two months, I'll get a real job and come back to the fold, I promise. I'll try to get a few items off of David's wish list ticked off before then. :) Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
