Scott Blomquist

It’s been a very long time since my last blog post, and an incredible amount of stuff has changed since then. My wife, plus our cats and a blueberry bush moved to Portland, OR along with the rest of Vidoop on a road trip that we called the Oregon Trail (the day 4 video is particularly worth watching).

Jennifer and I have settled in to an apartment in downtown near Portland State University, and are still trying to get all of our boxes unpacked. (I’m not the best unpacker the world has ever known—I have a tendency to freeze up once I’ve encountered the 3rd thing in a box for which I can’t find a home.)

I’m really enjoying Portland overall—I never have trouble finding interesting things to do or interesting people to talk to. I actually think I’ve become acquaintances with more techies here in 3 weeks than I managed to meet the entire time I was in Tulsa. I’m sure it’s not entirely Tulsa’s fault, but there are so many well-established and well-attended tech events here that it makes it really easy to meet lots and lots of people.

And all of that’s just the stuff that I do outside of work. My day job has recently changed as well. I’m still (or possibly even more so) Vidoop’s Chief Technology Officer, but I have handed off responsibility for day-to-day operation of the engineering team to Vidoop VP Scott Kveton. I’m already impressed with the number of good ideas he’s brought with him and the energy with which he’s implementing them.

I, meanwhile, have had more time to get caught up on how technology has been changing around us. I’ve had time to think about the way the Internet oughtta be, and some time to figure out how to get there. I’ll be picking up and running with a bunch of the projects that have come out of Vidoop Labs, and will be spending more time outside the office talking to various tech influentials about the problems and solutions they see, and how Vidoop can help them.

I know this is the first post on this blog in quite a while, but expect to see a whole lot more soon!