that’s whacked

… stevel has left the building

Thursday, Sep 27. 2007  –  Category: Sun

well, that’s it. at 7pm, after sobering up from many quickie-shots of goodbye scotch (a very fine smooth Glenfiddich 18 — thanks to johansen for that ), i left MPK17.

it’s been a sad couple of days boxing up my office, taking down the flags, cleaning things up, and seeing my phone disconnected (seriously: fastest servicedesk ticket response time ever. too bad i won’t be around to rate their service per their usual survey thing)

saying g’bye to all the friends i’ve made over the years has been rough. fortunately, SF is merely a hop, skip, shuttle, and train ride away from MPK; so i hope to continue to see lots of people and keep in touch. i can’t thank everyone enough for how much they’ve rocked and made my life so much fun for the past 4 years. but here’s a very very short list.

to those of you who think sappiness is lame: piss off and skip the rest of the entry.

first off, thanks to Bonnie & Karyn; i was fortunate to have the two best managers ever. i know that not only because i believe it strongly, but because others have told me so. you guys are amazing. your honest advice, and unwavering support means a lot.

thanks to Russ for fighting so tenaciously with ITops to get me un-borgified into ‘stevel’ in my first week.

thanks to the entire Tonic team for making the past 2 years so amazing. Mike, Derek, Alan, Teresa, Linda, Eric, Jim… you guys fight day and night to make sure OpenSolaris ain’t teh sux0r and will never get enough credit for the work you do. love you guys, and sorry i’m bailing.

to everyone on #onnv: you crack me up. i’ll miss the NC-17 madness.

to mjnelson, dduvall, dmarker, & JBeck: for any future Mercurial madness that may be my fault: I apologise…. and thanks for putting up with me.

to everyone I pestered for code review, RTI, or to open up their process/code: thanks for listening, being patient, occasionally ignoring me, and then giving in and helping me.

to dp: you do too have a sense of humour. cheers.

sch and geoff: better mentors and leaders i never had. thanks for all the advice you’ve given me, and thank you in advance for all the advice i will continue to seek from you in the future.

johansen: the scotch rocked. i never cease to crack up when i think of the ‘welcome to jamaica’ joke. thanks for showing me that there was someone in the kernel willing to come down to my level (or lower)

patrick & sara: you guys helped me decouple the words ‘marketing’ and ‘weenie’. sara: thanks for all the swag over the years. patrick: yer still a liverpool weenie… told you you couldn’t have heinze.

gman: ogb20074eva! thanks for the support, for the many IM conversations, and for willing to stick your neck out. opensolaris needs more people like you.

and lastly to jjc & esaxe: pretty much everything i needed to know about kernel hacking, i learned from you guys. thanks for recruiting me eric, convincing me to join Sun, and then reducing the suckiness in me.

so that was a long-winded post, and i’m sorry i didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to everyone in person or thank you all for everything you guys have done for me – but i’ll see you around in the community (hopefully at the summit, eh?).

cheers and rock on.

….. now where’d i put that bottle of cachaça… (thanks acruz!)