It’s been a long and pretty hectic week, so Ted asked if we’d lighten the mood with a collective dev team blog post. Here it is! 3 secrets about everyone on the dev team that no-one ever dreamed of asking.
Pete
1. Pete is phobic of riding horses. He doesn’t mind stroking them, leading them, standing near them, but make him get on one and he crumples in a blubbering wreck on the floor.
2. In moving to America Pete has managed to hide (until now) his infamous party trick. Imbibed with enough alcohol he’ll snort absolutely anything and was once in crippling agony after taking a dare to snort extra hot chilli sauce.
3. Despite his over zealous use of the F-Word (see Rockstartup), a love of motorcycles and a passion for anything with an engine, he’s a big softie. He lives with two dogs called, appropriately, Mac and Tosh.
Trev
1. There’s a web cartoon loosely based on me.
2. I have a birthmark on the back of my head that is turns my hair black only in that one spot.
3. I am invisible to cattle….seriously they can’t see me.
Eric
1. I once drove to NYC from Florida and back in 2 days so a friend could propose to a girl he met online, all to make a great documentary called The Proposal
2. My cat Tut is a famous barking cat you may have seen on VH1 or Youtube.
3. I have an unnatural obsession with Finding Nemo. There is a Finding nemo stuffed fish 3 feet from my head as I type.
Priscilla
1. My top 3 favorite bands are The Beatles, Led Zepplin, and Pink Floyd (in that order)
2. My birthday is on leap year day
3. I am the princess of Antarctica, but I don’t have official paperwork to back that up
Scott
1. Depending on whom I’m talking to my favorite qoutes are: “I would rather live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a sheep” or “Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons as you are crunchy and go well with mustard”
2. Favorite color: Black!
3. Least fascinating fact: I can cross only one eye.
Larry
1. I used to play Super Smash Brothers Melee (SSBM) for money
2. I listen to radioblogclub.com way too much
3. I can be seen flying into a face-to-wall-plant at the end of this video
Dan
1. I really like the ROI posts from Ted lately. It’s really fun to watch how a campaign progresses over time, and how it benefits our advertisers. With that, I thought it would be fun to share with your some graphs from the development side of PPP:
Here is a glimpse of stuff in the works:
We are also very aware of bugs in the system and work super hard to squash those for our users. Just look at our Bug Report! 🙂
2. The picture of me you see on the boards is a self portrait I did about 10 years ago. It’s done with pastels and is about 2 x 3.5 feet in size
3. I have an unnatural ability to know exactly what my girlfriend is giving me for Christmas, every Christmas, no excepts, 4 years running. No, I don’t search the closet, under the bed, her car trunk… I JUST know! Spooky, huh?
Dray
1. I can pop every joint in my body.
2. Marion Barry was arrested for smoking crack on my birthday.
3. I once drove from Orlando to Boston to see a concert at the Hatch Shell.
Jamie
1. I was a ballerina for 15 years
2. All of the flare on my desk is stolen from other people
3. I drink on the average 5 shots of espresso per day.
Steve
1. During the Disco era I tore up many dance floors. People use to get me confused with John Travolta
2. My favorite slogan is “Believe to achieve”
3. I have a Minature Dashund named Amanda
Mark(Mark abstained, so we’ll just make his up)
1. There is a picture on the postie wall of Mark in a Superman costume. Mark goes home every night and dresses up as his favorite comic superheros.
2. Mark is an avid sky-diver, but unknown to all his friends he only does it to look tough. He cries like a baby all the way up, and all the way down.
3. Mark never answers his phone out of office hours. While he claims to be single, we know that he does in fact live with a very old, quite domineering woman who refuses any form of technology in her house (he’s a kept man too).
