elliot winard

Last night I went to Macromedia’s annual corporate party at The Fillmore San Francisco with Sarah Allen. Sarah and I both worked at Macromedia before we moved over to Laszlo Systems. I think this is th elast real hurrah before the Macromedia/Adobe merger goes through.

The bar was open, the music and drinks flowing. “Headlining” the event was the band Modest Mouse. Having not seen Modest Mouse before and being a less-than regular consumer of TV (other than the Simsons) I always imagined that the singer of Modest Mouse looked just like Doug Martsch, the singer in Built To Spill. The show was pretty good even though they had a bunch of technical problems. Only a small chunk of the audience seemed really into the music. Friends still working at the MACR explained that the latest Modest Mouse album was piped into the company’s cafeteria during lunch for the past few days. This explains how most of the people knew some of MM’s more popular songs.

It was great to see all of my ex-coworkers — folks from Director, Flash, Breeze and Flex including Peldi, Cedub & Halon & Lunchmeat (!) from Fake Science, Libby Freligh. While it’s nice to visit my old co-workers, I’m still excited about hacking LZX code both at work & in my spare time. I’ve also started looking into Ruby on Rails, an open-source framework that practically writes web-apps by itself. Not really, but it sometimes seem like Rails is doing most of the boring heavy-lifting.