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
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Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one.
- Sting (misquoted)
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