There comes a time in a person’s life when walking 10 blocks seems a bit much and taking 10 steps feels like the right amount of steps to arrive at work. And so today marks the last day that Eric Hodel (aka drbrain) will be making his daily 10 block trek to the Co-op and will instead roll out of bed and over to his new 15” MacBook Pro to begin work on an exciting project for Limewire with the ever lovin’ zenspider.
But most life changes are really just subtle shifts and Eric remains a big part of our Robot family. He lives a few blocks away near one of our not-so-favorite lunch spots and he’ll be over in my garage soon helping me attempt to fix up the old soda machine for McLeod. We miss him already, but then again we’ll see him soon and often enough.
I recall driving to Eric’s house in my brother’s ‘84 Chevy truck to deliver an offer letter and a handshake. He was excited to be getting paid to write in Ruby, walk instead of commute by bus and not wear a tie to work everyday. We were all excited to have Seattle’s premier Ruby guru hanging out with us. Today I’d like to present Eric (along with Bob) my newly invented Lifetime Robot Achievement Award for helping us get to year two and “make it up and make it happen”. We wouldn’t be where we’re at now without you. Thank you Eagle Scout!
It was a pleasure working with you Dr. Brain! I uploaded my shots from the day to the tag “hodel’s last day”:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/hodelslastday/
I particularly like this one, where you are contemplating your enemy:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikbenson/317529122/
Congrats on the award and best of luck Eric!
Hopefully drbrain’s new employer will be as generous as the Robot Co-Op and will let him continue to release awesome open source software like pl_analyze, rails_analyzer, ar_mailer, etc.
Keep up the good work!
msa219@hotmail.com
Great job on all the sites Eric. Have fun on your new project.