Fiat Lux

Sad news from home today.

‘Tis evening on the moorland free,
The starlit wave is still:
Home is the sailor from the sea,
The hunter from the hill.

Sail on, Chris, you’ll be missed by your shipmates here.

Harry Truman famously said on learning that he had become President of the US, “I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.”

Not that my new job is remotely comparable to becoming POTUS, but even so, I think I know how he felt.

I’m at the Adobe Community Summit this week, meeting scores of new faces and getting inundated with information. My new gig has gotten Twittered, blogged, and announced at the keynote. It’s enough to inflate anyone’s ego, but the sheer amount of new stuff that I have to assimilate is a good counterbalance.

I was more than a little nervous about starting this job, but everyone has been so warm and welcoming, all I feel now is excited to get going!

It’s a lovely weekend, too nice for substantive blogging. Here’s a few quick notes though:

• I did a little playing around with Muxtape recently. Uploading songs is slower that I’d like, but other than that it’s a pretty pain-free process. The results are here.
• We’re all set for my Vassar class reunion next month. Thinking about how long it’s been since graduation makes me feel very old, but I’m psyched to be going back to one of the most lovely college campuses in the US.
• Obama has passed Clinton in committed superdelegates, as well as elected delegates.

And finally, a Tennessee Williams quote that’s been floating around my head this past day or so, after wrapping up my time at 4D:

People you’ve known in places do that: they go when you go. The earth seems to swallow them up, the walls absorb them like moisture, remain with you only as ghosts; their voices are echoes, fading but remembered.

The new gig starts Monday.