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While at The Shop, I've been given an interesting list of name signs for my desk. I was really fortunate to start in a good group - where there was a nice balance of work and play, and they all took part in giving<\/em> people names on their name signs. While I could just save the paper copies, I decided that I'd spend a little time, do the CSS, and put them all - with a nice commentary, as a post.<\/p>\n Without further ado, let's get right to it.<\/p>\n I'm a little fuzzy about the first one, but I remember distinctly<\/em> asking about the name signs, and where I could get the metal stands they all sat on. I didn't say that I was hoping to get a great nematic from someone in the group, but within a few minutes of me asking about it, Mike had gotten a new stand out of the office supply cupboard, and Gary had printed out a name tag for me:<\/p>\n It was so nice because it's one of my favorite movies, and it was a wonderfully kind thing for the guys to do.<\/p>\n The next one, like all the others, were placed without my knowledge - which was the way the group worked. And I'm not sure exactly what I did to be awarded this name tag, but I'm sure it had to do with never giving up.<\/p>\n This next name tag was clearly from a time when everyone in the group was sold on the idea of moving forward, and I was quoting National Treasure<\/em> about what we still had to do before we got there.<\/p>\n This one came along after someone had doubted me on something, and I answered back the the childhood response that I used for many a year.<\/p>\n The ruby gem collection is impressive - some are good, others are great, but there is the tendency to go with Convention over configuration<\/em>, and in that sense, there was a new feature the group needed to add - and were hoping that it already existed in the wild. In the end, I quipped that if it existed, that it would be...<\/p>\n There was likely a time when I brought in a cold. The group was tight, and it was a mistake on my part. I should have stayed home. But it earned me this name tag.<\/p>\n It was customary to send out an email to the group when you were planning on working from home in the coming days. I was typing this email way too fast, and the title was a typo, but one of epic proportions in the group. I had people using this as the tag for working from home for months to come. It was my one, real contribution to the group's culture.<\/p>\n My consumption of Diet Coke was certainly noted and talked about around the group. At the same time, I was working on a project called Dark Magic<\/em>, and so they gave me the name tag:<\/p>\n During the Bitcoin boom, a few of the guys in the group and I talked about doing some interesting things with Bitcoin. I'm still interested in it, but the lack of a solid financial backing means that it's just too volatile for me. One of the guys joked that if that were solved, how would I feel then, and my response made several of them laugh. It was almost immediately my new name tag.<\/p>\n While in a meeting with a group trying to internationalize the data on the cheap<\/em>, the person presenting was very upbeat (to say the least), and while I wanted to temper the ideas with the reality, I wanted to also let this person know that I recognized their positive attitude. It was then my next name tag.<\/p>\n This next one came from Gary, but I wasn't really sure why. Just Gary being Gary, I suppose.<\/p>\n And my final name tag came when a few in the group realized that we all had unique initials, and so made name tags for everyone<\/em> in the group:<\/p>\n And now it's my last day at The Shop. I start a new job just after the holidays, and that's going to be very nice, but I'll always remember my first group here, and all these fantastic name tags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While at The Shop, I’ve been given an interesting list of name signs for my desk. 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