Gaming, traveling, and other stuff
07年10月，我结束了在加州Bosch半年的实习，回北京毕业加上找工作。那时候在四个大大小小的公司实习过，做过悠闲的螺丝钉也做过996的接地气创业公司。找工作的时候想的倒也简单：找个不怎么加班的创业公司（现在想想这还真挺难）。在9#上看到Di的一篇招工文，就懵懵懂懂的来了FreeWheel开始实习，写Ruby on Rails。
刚来不久就发现其实还是要加班的。07年底的时候想上线1.0版本，于是在办公室附近订了几个旅馆房间，员工都干到半夜十二点然后去住那里。我那会儿还实习，一周只上两三天班，但也有幸体验了一两次。还好事实证明之后的这些年里，我需要加班的时候并不多。
那会儿我做的第一个功能是用户登录和权限控制。当时我的感觉是这你们都让实习生做，也是挺敢的。弄了几周做出来了，还附赠了一个巨简陋的登录后首页。没想到那首页一用就用了五六年。现在美化过的版本还是隐隐有当年的影子。
My contract started on 12/17/2007. Though I had been working as an intern for a few months before that, the official date is still an easy way to remember. It’s like the marriage certificate date.
In this fast-changing industry, it may not seem usual to work 5 years straight in a company. But I do see lots of old friends around here, who have been with FreeWheel for 3 or 4 years or longer than me. It’s comforting and heartwarming to see them.
When I joined FreeWheel, I didn’t imagine I would switch from a web developer to an integration engineer, then to a technical service specialist/manager. It was also a surprise to me that I lived in NYC now, so different from California, my 1st impression on US. And I love this great great city.
Thanks FreeWheel for all these experiences and opportunities. See you on the road!
一位青年想看星球大战，尤其想在家里电视上随时看。
买盗版DVD/正版蓝光，这是中国/美国普通青年。
找怀旧电影院/酒吧看，这是文艺青年。
创办一家科技公司，管理广告投放播放权等等一堆乱七八糟的事儿，然后把服务卖给各大媒体公司和各大视频网站，最后可以用X种交费方法在Y种设备上免费看带20分钟广告的版本。。。这就是贵司的story，什么青年我就不说了。
Learned that on today’s FreeWheel 5-year anniversary party(hooray~)
Get an inflated balloon. Bite a small hole on it do air can come out, then immediately put your mouth on the hole and inhale as much as possible. Now SPEAK! You will find your voice becomes very weird… Like a baby.
It’s probably because the balloon increased the air pressure in your lung. But it remains mystery to me that how Americans invented this game and why it’s popular here…
Btw, Chris showed us he can bite balloon to make it explode one after another, like nothing happened! Monster!
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Talked with a few ppl, and found the funny voice was not from pressure, but from Helium. See here.