#Business travel

[nice-bright-colors]

Monday morning (sad trombone)

Here I was hoping for a little bit of that ‘TSA back of the hand’ groping. Alas, no such luck this morning.

Flight 1 of 16 (or possibly 18) this month coming up.

[askagamedev]

For whenever you get back: how often do game devs go travel for meetings? I imagine executive decision makers do it frequently and trench level devs almost never do it.

You're generally right. It's expensive to have people traveling, so they usually reserve it for the executive and studio head levels. Those folks do the bulk of the traveling since they're the ones who need to meet with people from multiple studios - usually to see project progress, ask questions, and get answers. Being in the studio means that the people representing the studio can pull in other studio workers and subject experts as needed to answer specific questions.

I usually travel for work once or twice a year, mostly because I'm a permanently remote developer now and my studio wants to pull us in for face to face time every so often in order to build team cohesion. The main goal is to reinforce the relationships within the team, and having events where we can meet up in person helps a lot with that. Fully remote studios will have regular on-site meetups at venues and such for similar reasons. Add in a conference or two and that's pretty much my total travel allowance.

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[z428]

Way earlier. Along the way. Traveling, watching, noticing. Embracing the moment. // 📷 lost-in-moments

#oldlenses #film is not dead #orwo #outerworld #business travel #obyin #slow images

[sugoiney-weaver]

You may ask yourself, "Where's Sugoiney-weaver been?"

The answer? Everywhere!

This year, in order (home cities only listed once)

Omaha, Seattle, Juneau, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Louisville, Cupertino, Rochester NY, Portland, Merced, Phoenix, Austin, Okeechobee, Phoenix, Duluth MN, Las Vegas, Corona, Lake Forest, Wallace ID, Seattle, Juneau, Houston, Raleigh, San Mateo, Baltimore, Easton MD, Arlington VA/DC, Chicago, Schaumburg, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Plano, Spokane, Deerfield IL, and Phoenix, Park City, Boise, and finally my new home in Spokane.

143 nights spent in beds that are not mine. 39% of 2024. Approximately 32 weeks.

[yz]

Boston Logan Airport and downtown. October 2021.

Fujifilm X-T20 with Nikkor 70-210mm f/4.0-5.6 lens.

[roabouttown]

How to spend a day in Darmstadt

Spend a day in Darmstadt, a hidden gem in the Hesse region in Germany #travel #explore #Deutschland

The German cultural gem you’ve probably never heard of Darmstadt is a medieval town that is now home to heavy industry and punctuated by a number of art nouveau buildings. It is located in central-west Germany about 20km from Frankfurt. Like Frankfurt, it is home to a number of major German companies and tends to attract business travellers more than tourists. With this in mind, you are unlikely…

[alexbecerra93]

Please, make room in the overhead compartment

Will this sad world change,

one useless meeting at a time?

Would my future prospects improve,

with each new project in my bag?

Should my friends care less for me,

every time I meet them with half a heart?

"Jein", answers my seat neighbor, annoyed,

at both his pair of toddlers and my ranting.

"Tap tap tap", replies my boss's boss's MacBook,

interested in everything but my silly philosophizing.

There'll be then, no answers in this A320.

I shall try and find them though.

A project at a time, a meeting at a time,

and specially, always with a full heart.

[jaidanmaries]

INSTAGRAM: @JaidanMaries

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[kangocorp]

2025 AMCI Annual Meeting

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[z428]

Throwback Jan 22, 2019. A narrow parking backyard in some odd Munich hotel. Somewhat recent past compared to other old posts in here, yet from a different life. Annual kick-off event with my former company. The usual conflicting sentiments of having a good time with some great colleagues while general structure and mood in the organization already was deterioriating back then. (And, remember diving into a wholly different kind of darkness all along a lengthy conversation with the night porter in that particular place. It doesn't get more "gothic" than that.)

#throwback #business travel #munich #backyards

[sugoiney-weaver]

I spent the week in Seattle for work, and drove home yesterday. I stopped at a couple of thrift stores in Cle Elum and Ellensburg and picked up some good pieces!

This wall hanger is great. I love a good sconce. I'm not sure what this round part on the shelf is. It's nailed to the shelf and it looks like it has glue residue around the rim. I wonder if there was something mounted on this, perhaps taxidermy? I might saw it off. I can see a viney plant sitting on here.

This folding shelf was also a good get. I'm still just trying to find more surfaces for storage and display, and to fill the blank wall spaces.

And now, the pièce de résistance:

I found the lamp and then the desk at separate shops. I've been wanting a writing desk for my office study laboratory for non-work activities. It's old and beat up but I love it!