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Monday, August 09, 2010
A Piece of Nostalgia
For those of you who worked at BlueSky Software back in the day: I found this in our safe the other day. Our old games company may be defunct, the expiration date long past, but hold onto your certificates if you've still got 'em. Hope springs eternal; BlueSky will rise again!
LOL! I don't have that one (I think I'd left already), but it would be great if somebody would do a nice scan and send it to me! If interested, I can trade you for a comparably worthless piece of paper from Activision, Accolade, or Eidos! :)
I loved that jacket and still have it. I don't seem to get much opportunity to wear it 'cause it's never cold here, but it hangs in my closet. You know, after all this time I still have positive thoughts about George and BlueSky. BlueSky was like high school; good stuff happened; bad stuff happened, but you can't forget it because it was such a formative, tribal experience.
Weezie, you were still there for your "options" to be delivered, (I didn't think it was lame, but then, I didn't know how farcical the underlying financials might have been behind this "public offering"). I'd stashed my stock certificate away in a box somewhere, waiting for the resurrection...
I don't know if the "highs" achieved during a company's lifespan correlate at all to the best traits of those running the place, but for sure the death of a company seems determined by their all-too-human flaws.
It's easy to laugh about it now, but I'm glad the place lasted as long as it did.
Just like High School! (and Ellis, I have pictures of you in your fine Varsity BlueSky jacket--also just like High School!)
This is also a good time lapse on the stability of game employment. The BlueSky experience, a scant 12 years ago. I've had 3 jobs since then. 4 if you count 6 months of freelancing. Coming out of my longest stretch of unemployment.
Jason, the .jpg on this post is reasonably high definition. You can just download it. I tried removing my name in Photoshop so everyone could fill in their own name, but the blend pattern in the background makes it too difficult. Good counterfeit security measures Tom.
I liked my time at BS, but that doesn't mean that George wasn't a slime ball. But I did disliked it enough at one point to split before things got really bad.
Overall I have some terrific memories, and a lot of good friends, out of that place. My BS friends, that is a dividend that is still paying out, unlike the bird cage liner that George handed out at that sad Christmas party.
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I've got mine somewhere
I made them when George wanted something to dangle in front of people that would (possibly) never be worth anything. The laser printer rules!!
Ha! I remember how pathetic we all felt that night that George handed those out. What a slime ball he was...
LOL! I don't have that one (I think I'd left already), but it would be great if somebody would do a nice scan and send it to me! If interested, I can trade you for a comparably worthless piece of paper from Activision, Accolade, or Eidos! :)
Time to cash it in. I wonder what it's worth now.
You know what i don't have. I don't have my leather sleeve Blue Sky jacket. What did I do with it.? I have no idea. Garage sale?
Maybe I never had one. No, that was special order if I remember right. I had one and don't now
I loved that jacket and still have it. I don't seem to get much opportunity to wear it 'cause it's never cold here, but it hangs in my closet. You know, after all this time I still have positive thoughts about George and BlueSky. BlueSky was like high school; good stuff happened; bad stuff happened, but you can't forget it because it was such a formative, tribal experience.
I'm with you Tom. Essential to almost every branch of what has happened to me since then.
I concur with Tom, too. I learned so much at B.S. (the initials were kind of a harbinger of things to come, however).
Weezie, you were still there for your "options" to be delivered, (I didn't think it was lame, but then, I didn't know how farcical the underlying financials might have been behind this "public offering"). I'd stashed my stock certificate away in a box somewhere, waiting for the resurrection...
I don't know if the "highs" achieved during a company's lifespan correlate at all to the best traits of those running the place, but for sure the death of a company seems determined by their all-too-human flaws.
It's easy to laugh about it now, but I'm glad the place lasted as long as it did.
Just like High School! (and Ellis, I have pictures of you in your fine Varsity BlueSky jacket--also just like High School!)
Mine didn't fit. I got it too big. Maybe that's why I parted with it wherever I decided to part with it.
This is also a good time lapse on the stability of game employment. The BlueSky experience, a scant 12 years ago. I've had 3 jobs since then. 4 if you count 6 months of freelancing. Coming out of my longest stretch of unemployment.
Jason, the .jpg on this post is reasonably high definition. You can just download it. I tried removing my name in Photoshop so everyone could fill in their own name, but the blend pattern in the background makes it too difficult. Good counterfeit security measures Tom.
5 if you count freelancing. I left the Moneytropolis period out. How could I do that. That was the highpoint.
I liked my time at BS, but that doesn't mean that George wasn't a slime ball. But I did disliked it enough at one point to split before things got really bad.
Overall I have some terrific memories, and a lot of good friends, out of that place. My BS friends, that is a dividend that is still paying out, unlike the bird cage liner that George handed out at that sad Christmas party.
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