Steve Irwin

Over the past 5 or so years, the guys and I would occasionally chat about silly things at lunch or while grinding through some element of the day. These things would range from crazy gadgets to things we had seen recently, daily minutia all the way over to the truly bizarre. Occasionally one of us would bring up the Crocodile Hunter and something insane he had recently done. It would always prove an interesting conversation, with someone always taking the stance that "That dude is just asking to get killed" while the rest of us would defend his actions for various reasons.

Now, if you talk to any sane person and mention the Crocodile Hunter, they almost always say that he is crazy, or nuts, or both. I love the debate this brings on. My position is that he is just passionate. Passionate about something to a point that most people will never experience.

Think about it. Steve Irwin dedicated his life to trying to preserve the environment. He worked tirelessly to educate people on the things that meant the most to him, animals.

This is just what we do to get our minds thinking away from our current problem so that when we refocus in a few minutes, we are coming back at a different angle.

We consider ourselves passionate about what we do. We fight for web standards. We believe in our abilities. We trust in our years of learning and our processes to get us to the bottom of the problem and then work our way back through to the right solution. This is what we do as web designers and programmers. 

Steve Irwin, while in an completely different field, did much of the same thing we do daily. He tried to shed light on problems that needed attention and then by doing so, work towards finding a solution. To Steve, we tip our hats and say thank you for all the memories.

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