Found from Swiss-Miss

Real estate sources said the Southport, Conn., developer reportedly has a 120,000-square-foot lease deal with Cengage Learning, a developer of educational technologies and support products that previously operated as Thomson Learning. Cengage will be the first office tenant in the redeveloped Channel Center complex in South Boston.

More at: Cengage Learning lease is a lift for Channel Center

A quick Google search for Channel Center Boston brought up a few pics. Looks like a nice new home for the merged Thomson Learning and Houghton Mifflin.

The Google map below shows that the new digs (B) are only a short walk from the old digs (A). Not that far to move, though it’ll be a brisk walk back to Flour and Lucky’s.

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Good luck to all Cengagers involved in the move!

Schmap is an online travel guide, and they apparently use Flickr photos tagged with Creative Commons rights to create photo galleries.

See the St. Louis Schmap here.

It’s a pretty ingenious way to grab photos off the web for free.  I feel like a published photographer.

When a job comes up on the set that no one else has to do, according to job definition, the producer gets to do it. This comes up on a regular basis, usually because someone else didn’t do his job, didn’t do his job well, or didn’t think of the job in the first place.

page 519, “You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again“

An intriguing definition, from a movie Producer who routinely had to deal with the most intense crises imaginable.

While all the runners in the stadium take part in the race, the award goes to one man.  In that case, run so as to win!

Athletes deny themselves all sorts of things.  They do this to win a crown of leaves that withers, but we a crown that is imperishable.

I do not run like a man who loses sight of the finish line.  I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing.

What I do is discipline my own body and master it, for fear that after having preached to others I myself should be rejected.

I recall being incredibly moved when I read this passage; I read it at a time when I felt I had “lost sight of the finish line.”  For me, shadowboxing is sleeping in on the weekend instead of getting up early, taking too many coffee breaks, surfing the net instead of coding sites.  It’s the tendency to coast when I could be pushing further – running “so as to win.”

And now when I come across challenges, and have the choice to sidestep it or push myself, I think of this passage – so that “I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing.”

The new version of Flickr Uploadr seems to have messed up the descriptions a bit, but at least the major upload is done.

Barking Crab, originally uploaded by Jobriga.

]]> http://www.jobriga.com/journal/2007/08/17/barking-crab/feed/ 0 http://www.jobriga.com/journal/2007/05/05/modern-day-marriage-announcements/ http://www.jobriga.com/journal/2007/05/05/modern-day-marriage-announcements/#comments Sat, 05 May 2007 03:36:33 +0000 Jobriga http://jobriga.com/journal/2007/05/05/modern-day-marriage-announcements/ I’m not sure what’s the most surprising:

1. My friend Bruce Kaye has a blog
2. I’m browsing it at 11:30pm on Friday night
3. Today’s entry is “the big news around here is that I’m getting hitched“, which is the first time I heard about it.

Bizarre – this is the first time I’ve learned about a major life change from someone’s blog.  Welcome to marriage announcements in the 21st century!

Congrats Bruce!

I don’t know – seems lackluster somehow.  I do wonder what Harry and Voldemort are reaching towards – it appears to be something just above the top of the cover.