{"id":713,"date":"2008-09-29T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T23:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2008-09-29T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T23:29:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Site<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the second edition of rongeorge.com.\u00a0 I stopped blogging around 2002 and am just now finding the time to do it again. This site will basically just be a place for me to dump ideas, photos, code samples, and other IxD review types of things. The question I get asked the most, &#8220;what software do you use?&#8221; will also be answered here &#8230; laboriously and over time but I will detail out each piece of software that I have accumulated over the years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a former Marine (Semper Fi!) and I do Experience Design. I have 2 cats (the best pets a techie could ever ask for) and I live in Kirkland, Washington which is just on the East side of Seattle and right by Microsoft Campus. Incidentally I live about 3 blocks from the new Google Campus as well.\u00a0 On the weekends I am a whitewater rafting guide in Leavenworth (during the summer only).\u00a0 I like to sketch, paint, and takes tons of photographs. I spend way to much time in Photoshop for it to be healthy. \ud83d\ude42 I game every now and then on the PC and sometimes on the XBOX when the XBOX team throws me free DVDs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When I am not designing, I am probably &#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_349\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"size-full wp-image-349 \" title=\"WhiteWater Rafting Guide\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rongeorge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rafting-5-31-09-drunkards3.jpg\" alt=\"Being a Whitewater Raft Guide on the Wenatchee River in Washington\" width=\"465\" height=\"346\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WhiteWater Rafting Guide<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>or I am &#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_350\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rongeorge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stopontheside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350\" class=\"size-large wp-image-350   \" title=\"Stopping on the way to Yakima\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rongeorge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stopontheside-650x245.jpg\" alt=\"Riding my Ducati to Yakima\" width=\"520\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stopping on the way to Yakima<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>either way, I am probably happy. I hope you are too in whatever you do. To be honest, thats the best anyone can hope for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Site Welcome to the second edition of rongeorge.com.\u00a0 I stopped blogging around 2002 and am just now finding the time to do it again. This site will basically just be a place for me to dump ideas, photos, code samples, and other IxD review types of things. The question I get asked the most, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-713","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}