A Decade In Review
Tomorrow, it will be 2010.
| Ten years ago | Now |
|---|---|
| I was a sophomore at RPI, considering a double-major in Computer Science and Management. | I am a developer/manager for a small company. |
| I lived in a tiny dorm room in the crummiest suburb (Troy) of one of the crummiest capital cities in the country (Albany). | I live in South Boston in a condo I own. I have a patio and a garden. |
| I was dating my High School sweetheart, who went to college almost five hours away. I saw her about once a month. | I'm married to my High School sweetheart. I sleep in a bed with her every night. |
| I stayed in my old bedroom at my parents' house every month or so. | Someone else owns that house, and my parents live in an RV. They're currently in the Florida Keys. |
| I hung out with college friends, and once a month saw friends from High School. | I hang out with college and Boston-area friends. I don't see my Philly-based and California-based High School friends often enough. |
| I'd had a handful of beers (sorry mom, it's true) but was not legally able to purchase alcohol. | I spent a Benjamin on a bunch of champagne for tonight's New Year's Eve party. |
| I was programming mostly in C++ (both for school work and working on Science and Industry) with a little bit of Perl. | I'm programming mostly in Java (work and Android app development) with a little bit of Perl and Python. |
| I ran a community website called WSVW1U.com. | I run a personal website called Plutor.org. |
| I was planning the third iteration of a holiday I invented, called National Vacuum Awareness Day. | NVAD expired after 2001. I still have dozens of shirts in my basement. Buy one? |
| I frequented Slashdot, Ars Technica, and suck.com. | I'm active on MetaFilter, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. |