Fact 13
I once had the “pleasure” of riding a snowboard like a toboggan down an entire ski run.
Fact 11
I suck at math. I always did pretty good at most of my other subjects, but math has never been one of them. When I was applying for a scholarship in college, I needed to pick up a copy of my high school transcript. My wife got a big kick out of the section that showed my SAT scores, where I scored in the 90th percentile on everything, except where I was in the 30th for math.
As part of my stellar career in mathematics, I even had the chance to take 8th grade algebra. Twice. As a result, my wife is constantly amazed that I’m able to survive in a field where math plays such a big role in what I do for living.
Fact 10
I’m changing jobs. I’ve been at Footnote.com for the last year or so, and it’s been a lot of fun. We worked on some cool stuff while I was there, and some of the stuff they’ve got cooking for the coming months is going to be great.
So why am I leaving?
Footnote is currently looking for a Sr. Flash Developer. This person will be responsible for the architecture, maintenance, and implementation of new features for Flash-related content on Footnote.com, including our Document Viewer.
Qualifications
- Must have experience using Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0
- Work closely with the design team, and implement Flex skins based on design comps
- Strong understanding of OOP techniques
- Experience using XML in ActionScript
- JavaScript and PHP skills strongly recommended
- Understanding of and experience in Agile programming methods recommended
- Technical writing skills and the ability to document code appreciated
Salary Range:
Unspecified
Application Instructions:
Please email a copy of your resume and a cover letter to Scott Jackman - sjackman[AT]footnote.com
Fact 9
I have no appendix. Had to have it removed back in the sixth grade. So, if you’re ever unfortunate enough to see me without my shirt, you’ll see a lovely four inch scar on my belly.
One of my favorite memories about that experience was having my sixth grade teacher come visit while I was in the hospital. She had decided to bring in the class hamster to pay me a visit, and snuck it into the hospital inside one of those hamster balls, which was inside her bag. As we were visiting, she put the ball down on the floor, and let the little guy roam around the room. However, after a couple of minutes, the nurse came into the room, and in order to hide the hamster, he was quickly punted under the bed.
It’s amazing that little guy survived the school year.
Fact 8
I love cartoons. There’s something about hand-drawn animation that I find really appealing. I don’t have any problems with the newer Flash-animated or computer animated ones, but if I’ve got my choice between watching Pixar’s latest feature or watching Marvin try to destroy the Earth with his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, I’ll pick Marvin every time.
My favorites are Futurama, The Simpsons, the old Looney Toons, and Tom & Jerry shorts. After all, there we wouldn’t have the awesomeness that is Itchy and Scratchy if it wasn’t for Tom & Jerry. Honestly, sometimes the only difference between Tom & Jerry and Itchy & Scratchy is the amount of blood - the level of violence that they both try to inflict on each other is pretty equal. (I’ll also add that if there’s ever a DVD collection of only the Itchy & Scratchy shorts, I’d pick that up in a heart beat.)
Fact 7
I’ve never broken any bones. I’ve fallen and hurt myself plenty of times, but so far, haven’t broken anything.
I do however, have a broken tooth, as a result of my stellar athletic ability. I didn’t react fast enough, and ended up catching a baseball from my brother with my teeth.
For the third or fourth time in the last week, I’ve caught myself trying to treat my iPod or cell phone as an additional display connected to my Mac. A few times it’s been because I wanted to skip a song on the iPod, so I moused over to the edge of my screen, and was slightly irritated when the cursor didn’t pass over to the iPod’s screen.
Today, it was my cell phone, because I had received a text message and I wanted to read it. Again, I tried mousing off of the edge of my screen to the phone’s, to read the message. I guess I’ve been spoiled by Teleport.
Fact 6
I was a band geek in school. Marching band, pep band, jazz band, orchestra, playing for the musicals, etc. If there was a need for a trumpet player, I was there. I even played in the pit orchestra for another high school’s musical because they didn’t have enough trumpet players.
There have been plenty of times in projects where I’ve wanted to compare two objects to see if they are equal. I don’t really care if they are the same object, all I care about is if they are identical - meaning that they could be two unique objects, but that the values of their properties are equal to each other.