{"id":247,"date":"2004-09-20T21:05:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T01:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/envy_is_so_unbecoming"},"modified":"2004-09-20T21:05:36","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T01:05:36","slug":"envy_is_so_unbecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2004\/09\/envy_is_so_unbecoming.html","title":{"rendered":"Envy Is So Unbecoming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, an friend of mine from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\" title=\"'There's a college \/ way up north \/ that's made for you and meeee...'\">HMC<\/a> forwarded us all a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=948\" title=\"Microsoft's new graphics platform\">Channel 9 discussion about Microsoft&#8217;s Avalon project<\/a>, hosted by fellow &#8217;97 alum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eightypercent.net\/\" title=\"Joe's weblog\">Joe Beda<\/a>. The general reaction of the recipients was, &#8220;Holy crap, Joe&#8217;s gone bald!&#8221;  I didn&#8217;t care about the hair; <em>my<\/em> reaction was, &#8220;Holy crap, Joe&#8217;s one of the lead developers on Avalon!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a few months, and it turns out Joe has left his high-profile job at Microsoft, to take another job at Google. I don&#8217;t know how high-profile this new Google job is, but apparently it&#8217;s important enough to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/business\/30438.htm\" title=\"Okay, it *is* the NY Post, but still.\">reported in nationally-syndicated media outlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Joe says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eightypercent.net\/Archive\/2004\/09\/19.html#a214\" title=\"'NY Post article'\">it&#8217;s not all that newsworthy<\/a>&#8230; but come on, can&#8217;t you just smell the false humility? I&#8217;m all about rooting for my fellow alumni,<sup>[<a href=\"#20-1\">1<\/a>]<\/sup> but this is starting to get ridiculous. To Joe I say, <em>pbbbbhhllt! At least I still have all my hair<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"20-1\"><\/a><small>1. I&#8217;m trying to think of other HMC grads who are moderately famous in the software world. Bookmarklet guru <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/\">Jesse Ruderman<\/a> springs to mind, but these days he&#8217;s mainly famous for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/pornzilla\/\" title=\"Pornzilla: Porn surfing redefined\">his interest in porn<\/a>. The only other one I can think of is Wes Cherry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wga.org\/WrittenBy\/0201\/business.html\" title=\"'If only a penny a copy', he says...\">that dude who invented Windows Solitaire for free when he was an intern<\/a>. Well, that&#8217;s something, at least.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all about rooting for my fellow alums, but this is starting to get ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}