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January 2007 note: This whole thing is in desparate need of an update. You've been warned.
I'm Rachel, a 2526-year-old web developer / programmer who graduated from RPI in May 2003 and spent about a year and a half working as a developer at UBS. I recently got A year ago Two years ago (!) I got a job as a web developer at Meetup, and God willing I will never work at an investment bank again. That's me over there on the left. I'm in San Francisco in that picture, but I was born and raised in lovely Meriden, CT before heading off to college in not-so-lovely Troy, NY. I'm currently living and working in New York City.
I always have a really hard time writing these "about me" pages, but I know there are a lot people (myself included) who really enjoy reading them. So, instead of trying to write some kind of coherent narrative about my life and how cool I am for using CSS knowing AJAX!!!1!, I'm just going to fill this out with some random facts and observations:
→ Some of the developers at my old job had than one monitor, and who got to have multiple monitors seemed to be decided rather arbitrarily. There was one guy on my team who had two, and he always just maximized one huge window across both of them, which was completely missing the point of having two monitors. His right-hand monitor was always just a sea of white with a toolbar across the top. It drove me crazy.
→ I secretly wish I was as cool as Dooce and Meg and Mena and Maggie, and all the other über-popular female bloggers who also make a living doing Cool Internet Things. I now officially make a living doing Cool Internet Things. Yay!
→ I'm a Mac user, and OS X is the reason I switched. It's everything that's good about Windows and Unix, with none of the hassle of either. And don't tell me that you won't ever pay for your music until you've experienced the wonder that is the iTunes Music Store. That's all I have to say about that.
→ Watergate was neither water nor a gate. Discuss.