My new job at Extensis

[Thomas Phinney]

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I officially became an Extensis employee last week. http://www.thomasphinney.com/2009/04/phinney-joins-extensis/

I'm pretty excited about this new position. It's already turning out to be lots of fun, and gives me plenty of opportunities to learn new things, while working with a great crew of people and not leaving the type industry (albeit not involved in making fonts).

Cheers,

T

[paul d hunt]

Congratulations, Thomas!

[Jan]

Congrats. Glad to hear that.

[nina]

Wow, very cool. Congrats!

[dezcom]

Congratulations, Thomas!!! Glad to hear the news!

ChrisL

[Zara Evens]

Congrats, Thomas! You'll love Portland, it is a great city to raise a family.

[jupiterboy]

x2, Portland is great. Congratulations.

[SuperUltraFabulous]

Good for you Thomas!

Hopefully you haven’t blown through your severance money so you can buy the home the wifey really wants. The market is ripe for pickin’.

;-) Mikey

[eliason]

Congrats!

[William Berkson]

All the best! We're looking forward to learning more from you :)

[ebensorkin]

Congratulations, Thomas! I am sympathetic to the idea that Portland is perhaps even nicer than Seattle and anyway, I hope you will find it to be. And I second what Bill said!

[jupiterboy]

Burnside + Powell’s + mini China Town + BridgePort = nexus of awesome!

[Ricardo Cordoba]

Congratulations, Thomas! Good for you.

[Miss Tiffany]

Yey! The news is out. Congratulations again, T!

[Thomas Phinney]

Thanks, all. Yes, Portland seems pretty cool. We'll miss our friends in Seattle, and a few of the local cultural things, but in general this seems pretty great.

We're not buying a house right away, mostly because I believe the price of houses could still fall another 10, 20, maybe even 30%. We'll rent for at least a year, then buy once housing prices seem to have bottomed out or are starting to rise. (Even allowing substantially for costs and hassles of moving, and tax benefits of owning, if housing prices drop more than 3.5% in a year, we are better off renting.)

Cheers,

T

[russellm]

congratulations Thomas.

-=®=-

[Mark Simonson]

I don't know about Portland housing prices, but they seem to have bottomed out in our neighborhood in St. Paul. People seem to be buying houses again lately.

Oh, and congrats on the new job.

[dan_reynolds]

Congratulations, Thomas! They are quite lucky to have you. I hope that you enjoy the move and the fresh start!

[mili]

Congrats! Hope you enjoy the new job and city.

[Simon Robertson]

congrats!

[kentlew]

Great news, Thomas! I'm thrilled for you and the family. Portland is definitely cool (although I'm going mostly on experience from almost two decades ago). I always liked PDX better than the Emerald City. I'm sure you'll learn to really love it. And this is great news for font management. Extensis is lucky to have you.

[sal_randazzo]

Congratulations Thomas!

Extensis is gaining a great person and typography resource.
I hope you and your family find Portland a fun and good place to live in.

Regards,
Sal Randazzo

[bowerbird]

portland is just seattle in another state. you'll love it.

-bowerbird

[bowerbird]

i said:
> portland is just seattle in another state.

i was trying to be positive, thomas, and
i have no doubt portland will be great...

but...

but the truth is, i'm not a very good liar,
not even when i'm being a cheerful liar.

and the truth is, portland might be fine,
but it's _no_ seattle, because there can be
no other seattle, because seattle is unique.

you see, i lived in seattle when i went to u.w.

grew up in eastern washington, and then
went to u.w. 4 years as an undergraduate.

i lived above the ship canal, west nickerson,
and rode my bike over to campus every day,
so i got stopped often by the fremont bridge.

(it's the lowest drawbridge on the ship canal,
meaning it has to open more than any other.)

i used to love getting stopped. because it gave
me a chance to stop and watch the ships go by,
which is actually better than smelling the roses,
because the smell of the roses will fade away,
but each ship was on a journey, and journey
spurs the imagination to wonder itself away.

where are they going? what are they doing?
when are they returning? are they returning?
i used to love getting stopped; i would watch.

ahh, my college years...

this was a long time ago, long before adobe
bought that land north of the fremont bridge
and built their stuff there -- a long time ago,
way long before there even _was_ an adobe...

since then, i'm sure the place has been gentrified,
what with the fancy adobe buildings and the fancy
adobe people and their fancy adobe power lunches.

i'd like to think fremont will always hold on to its funk
-- and please don't bother to tell me if it's not true --
but i'm sure all that fancy has rubbed off onto some...

but gosh darn what a beautiful city.

so... after the bridge, i'd bike alongside the water,
past gasworks park, over by ivars, up onto campus.

some days after class, then i'd bike over to greenlake
-- which is officially my favorite place in the world --
and take a couple 3-mile spins doing the girlwatching.

i loved seattle.

i loved the locks, golden gardens, the greenest green.

i loved the ferries. the washington state ferries.

i loved the emerald city.

i was sad when i had to leave seattle.

and i'd guess that you're sad too, thomas.

i'm sure portland will be fine.

but i knew seattle.

and portland is no seattle...

-bowerbird

[nora g]

Hi Thomas, what good news! The very best wishes for you and your family. I hope you all get familiar soon with the all the new stuff coming ...