Member Tho… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform 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 Link to comment
Member Jan… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Congrats. Glad to hear that. Link to comment
Member nin… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Wow, very cool. Congrats! Link to comment
Member dez… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Congratulations, Thomas!!! Glad to hear the news! ChrisL Link to comment
Member Zar… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Congrats, Thomas! You'll love Portland, it is a great city to raise a family. Link to comment
Member jup… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 x2, Portland is great. Congratulations. Link to comment
Member Sup… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 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 Link to comment
Member Wil… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 All the best! We're looking forward to learning more from you :) Link to comment
Member ebe… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 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! Link to comment
Member jup… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Burnside + Powell’s + mini China Town + BridgePort = nexus of awesome! Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Congratulations, Thomas! Good for you. Link to comment
Member Mis… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Yey! The news is out. Congratulations again, T! Link to comment
Member Tho… Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 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 Link to comment
Member rus… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 congratulations Thomas. -=®=- Link to comment
Member Mar… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 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. Link to comment
Member dan… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Congratulations, Thomas! They are quite lucky to have you. I hope that you enjoy the move and the fresh start! Link to comment
Member mil… Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Congrats! Hope you enjoy the new job and city. Link to comment
Member ken… Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 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. Link to comment
Member sal… Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 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 Link to comment
Member bow… Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 portland is just seattle in another state. you'll love it. -bowerbird Link to comment
Member bow… Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 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 Link to comment
Member nor… Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 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 ... Link to comment
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