This is the personal web site of John P. Reardon (a.k.a JP Reardon), that’s me. I am a product manager, recovering user experience designer, technologist, generalist and dabbler in several hobbies. Most of these pursuits take place in and around New York City where I spend most of my time.
Speaking of hobbies, if one reads through the archives here, they can trace the arc of my interest in several of them. Right now, I’m most focused on bass (although I don’t practice enough) and electronics (although that’s sort of been on hold as of late). If I still had a boat, I’d be sailing. If you’re looking for crew, I’m available.
About this Site
The posts here reflect my interests, that’s my way of saying they are quite random. While there are some stretches of inactivity over the long history of this site, the last couple years have been more regular due to my adoption of the weeknotes.
This site was born in 2003. It was originally powered by Moveable Type, as was the style at the time. In 2006, it was migrated to WordPress, which continues to be the backend for this site despite my repeated threats to move to a static site.
It’s possible that I’ve found it more useful than anyone else. Well, except for people looking for information about Homebrew Yaesu FT-857D Soundcard Cables or Bose 901 Equalizer Repair, they visit frequently. Hey, I said “quite random”, but I digress. I frequently search through the archives for something that I know I wrote about, occasionally, I share a link with a friend to one of my posts. For those reasons alone, it’s worth having a blog. If you don’t already have one, you should get one going–it’s free!
Big thanks to the fine people that maintain WordPress and Matthias Pfefferle for the SemPress Theme.
By the way, any opinions expressed here are mine and not necessarily shared by my employer, family, friends or anyone else.
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Quoted etc. elsewhere
- Curbed (photo): Vital Friday Poll: Crave Case vs. Luxury Condos (link to archived version) This is the photo that used to appear on that Curbed page: Luxury White Castle
- DNA Info (photo): Woman Wins 17-Mile Swim from Manhattan to Coney Island (PDF)
- New York Magazine: Thirtiessomething (PDF)
- New York Times: For a Salute to Neighborhoods, Some Heartfelt Bronx Cheers (PDF)