Mark Swardstrom's profile answers

Ultimate frisbee - the only sport where every player plays every postion. It's perfectly ballanced for defence and offense. It is a great display of athletic ability (as a spectator sport). It can be self-referreed and is great co-ed.

Overall - a very well designed sport.

I'm creating a site that allows people to easily build websites. http://www.grovr.com/. Friends are using it for their ultimate teams, daycare classrooms, bookclubs, etc. It saves me lots of time helping them with their sites :)

Honestly - I love what I do, but I usually need to have more than a couple projects going on at once. I like remodeling and working on home projects. I'm constantly trying to improve the "user experience" I guess. I also like being in a situation where I'm constantly learning. Ruby on Rails is really fun to work with at the moment and I am soaking up as much as I can about it....

I took a roundabout path - starting out in the Software industry as an illustrator and animator. I worked for Bright Star technology, a small startup in Seattle, animating children's software. After that, I got some experience as a software designer, and continued my education in Computer Science. When the opportunity arose, I got more development experience and got a postion with ESPN.com where I could design and develop. This lead me down the path of a Program Manager, but I found out I liked development more than management and moved from PM to UI developer. I found a company where I could start developing full time and haven't looked back. This is where it's the most rewarding for me....

Within walking distance?

My house.
The Seattle waterfront.
Pike place market.
Belltown
The trolley