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Yes, I am staying at McAfee

Peter Wooley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:45:54 +0000

As you have no doubt heard, Tyler Sticka has announced that he will be leaving McAfee. Many of you know that Tyler and I attended the Art Institute of Portland together and, since then, we formed the first Interaction Design team at US Digital (along with Erik Jung), taught at the Art Institute of Portland, and were working closely on Enterprise software at McAfee.

Designing and developing with Tyler is an exhilarating experience. He’s quick, thoughtful, and engaging—and I know he’ll continue to go further as he takes his next step.

With our history, I imagine some might think I’ll be leaving to join Tyler in the near future. I want to say that, while working with Tyler is a ton of fun, I have no plans to leave McAfee. My current role has been, and is, an exciting challenge. With just over a month and a half under my belt, I’m enjoying both the people and code I get to develop with. The five day work weeks have been a little tough to get used to, along with the commute, but free soda and fast-paced, testable, continuously-integrated web development is awesome.

While we may not be working under the same roof, do not fret; professionally we are not done.

Merry Thanksgiving!

Peter Wooley — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:18:44 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I think when I say “everyone”, I am referring to the 3 other people that I’ve told about this site. According to my logs, I’ve hit the site about 3000% more than anyone else—go figure.It is 12:51am here on the West Coast, and that means it’s Thankgiving! I’d just like to say that I have a lot to be thankful for this year, as many others do. I’ve been blessed with a terrific fiance, a wonderful family and an amazing job oppurtunity. I’ve also had the recent fortune of going through spiritual struggles with God. I’ve never stopped believing in Him, but through some classes at school, it’s thrown things into question. It’s hard to explain, but I’ve basically seen the distance I’ve walked away from God, but through it I’ve prayed a lot and talked with a lot of close friends. Some of them may not know they helped me through anything, but if you’ve had positive contact with me in the past two weeks, you probably helped me.

The real turning point was this last Sunday when I had an actual fruitful interaction during church just pouring over the Gospels (Sorry Pastor Arden, I wasn’t totally paying attention.). Some things I was looking at just didn’t make sense, Matthew 7:21-23 was really sticking me. I’ve heard this verse that says, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven.” For some reason, I couldn’t see how this aligned with simple salvation through grace, and then I realized that the Will of God does not consitute works, but rather the actual message of Christ, acceptance of Mercy through Christ. It took me nearly 20 minutes to come to this decision, but I know that it wasn’t me who finally figured it out.

In the same way, a class I am taking at the Art Institute of Portland is trying my faith. Each week I struggle to, if not prove then, stand up for Christianity. While I was doing that, I was not even prayerfully considering what God might be asking of me. Well, through this ordeal, I’d finally prayed and found words tonight. Granted, they weren’t perfect as I am sure the Holy Spirit was guiding me to actually say, but I felt emboldened. And when I started to question what I had said and thinking of what it might be like to believe in nothing, I felt God say, “It’s easy.” And it all came flooding back to me! Of course it is easy to believe in nothing. To such a mindset, you can get away with anything. It was at that time tonight that I realized I am moving forward—moving from Milk to Steak, if that makes sense.

Very Nearly Free!

Peter Wooley — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:50:44 +0000

I am now sitting in between classes, waiting for my day to end. I have History of Material Culture in 2 hours and 15 minutes and I can’t wait for it to come and go. I have so many plans tonight, none of which I have thought through. So far they consist of:

Seeing my Honey-Bunny Fiance
Playing some World of Warcraft with Serenny, my level 27 Gnome Mage
Finishing up this site and peterschristmaslist.com
Sleep

I doubt I will get all of these done, but they will go in that order. I am excited for tomorrow being Thanksgiving, but I just can’t seem to wrap my head around it. Sitting in here in school the day before is unsettling to me. I think I’ve always been at home or at least not at school on the day prior. Soon, though, I will be free.

A time for sleeping.

Peter Wooley — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:52:46 +0000

This morning was a sad time for me. Not only was I subjected to the typical Wednesday rigors like getting up before the sun was up and not remembering where I was, but I also had the misfortune to not be in traffic. Yes, there was no traffic today. Not only did I know that everyone else in the world has taken today off, but then it had to go and reinforce itself with zero traffic and me getting to school 30 minutes before it started. Normally, I would look at the bright side of things and say, “Hey, I saved gas and I got time post on my super-cool blog!” But, before 11:00am, I’m a different person, twisted and dark. I did have some tasty Black Tea, though – and that pretty much made up for the whole ordeal.

Cleansed.

Peter Wooley — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:02:33 +0000

I now sit in an entirely clean room. I even vacuumed! Currently, everything is in its place and everything actually has a place! I threw away tons of excess computer parts that may have worked, but fate was against them. I feel so good!I have class in 7 hours. For some reason, whenever I have an early class, I have the desire to stay up longer. Perhaps it stems from my late night homework habits. In any case, my homework is done for this class, so all I have to do is go to bed, wake up, drive to the MAX, ride the MAX, walk to school and learn! It’s that easy. But, honestly, I’d rather stay up and play around in the World of Warcraft, on this here Blog and listen to my favourite tunes!

Ahh, what a splendid life I live! And Thanksgiving is coming! Perhaps I will just sleep in tomorrow…

Homework-B-Gone

Peter Wooley — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:35:43 +0000

Well, I am still in between classes, but my homework is complete! I just turned in my last paper for the week and I am feeling quite good. All I have to do now is wait for my next class to finish and its off I go from the Pearl District – until next Monday, of course.I wasn’t up as late last night and am feeling quite excited to do some interesting projects tonight. I need to finish up peterschristmastlist.com and start making it ready for multiple users. For anyone that is interest, I will be trying porting the code I’m using for multiple users and will be seeing if I can create a clean, easy-to-use Personal Listing Sytem (on a different domain name, of course). If you are at all interested in this, let me know and I may get it done even faster. I’d also like to work on my own personal site, but that’s an undertaking for more than a weekend, plus I’d really like to see my Fiance (which I will!)!

A Poem for Marketing

Peter Wooley — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:41:49 +0000

I finished my homework as best I could for my class in the morning. I must say it is not my best work. It is a marketing class and I chose a product to analyze and market by the name of Firefox. While a great and mighty product, the fact that it is open source and free has made it really, really difficult. Any time we discuss price or cost, my mind gets confused, as Firefox is mostly free, save for the download time and install. I just have to get through the class.

This is certainly not me giving up, but if given the chance, I’d take a “pass” if I could just duck out. Not even that. If I could just go and learn without having to do the homework, that’d be great! Alas, life is not so sweet and I must be up in a few hours.

Captured!

Peter Wooley — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:40:55 +0000

Alas! My PowerBook was just stuck in the arms of a formidable opponent! Rather, it was surrounded by the arms of a girl who quietly stole my Lab Computer. I needed to run down to my car (in the garage below), so I left up a browser as well as my PowerBook on the desk in front of the keyboard. Who would be so unwise as to take that, assuming it was an open computer? I waited for several minutes and quietly sat near the laptop and the thief. It was a grueling 6 minutes past that and it was free! Oh, sweet freedom. Thankfully, the PowerBook is safe and in my custody once again. What an adventure.