Grey area podcast interviews Jeri Ellsworth with some valve questions.

[ithon]

[url]http://www.twitch.tv/jenesee/b/328895114[/url]
[warning Jeri's mic is up loud at the beginning]
there's also a semi flub with switching between a backdrop and skype.

51 minutes in is her first valve question which she can't say what just that she really wants to show it.

52:50 in introduces the valve structure of how a project gets started and other features in how it works

1:00:49 how Jeri was hired <-- this

1:09 her typical day

1:11 is where valve wants it's hardware to be developed.

1:18:29 linux and valve tidbit

1:19:ish talks about from her gaming which leads to pinball machines at valve.

1:43:35 it's odd for her to get approached by people from

1:45:06 talks about hacking the "bathroom music server" <------ Hawaiian x-tmass music with glados voice bits between.

1:48:ish talks about valve developing skynet

If you don't know who Jeri is, her life's story is always enjoyable to listen to so just listen from beginning to end if you have the time, she talks about her creating a fake pax badge, to race cars, to running away from people at defcon, to her toy days, attention with the DTV, and more.

Edit:
I've been told her co-workers had gag material in their hands, all I noticed was a person in a full orange jumpsuit, so there are easter eggs in the video apparently.

[fenwick]

I love her.

[editline]18th August 2012[/editline]

I would kill to find out what she is working on.

[ithon]

she has an NDA, besides she likes surprising people when she can. I should email Gabe about when he gets back from the sharks about what caught his eye on Jeri.

Also she mentioned that they got over 2,000 EE job applications within a few days after the valve blog post on wearable computing and they have enough EEs to get going on what they want except they are looking for mechanical engineers, (this about about May). If anyone is interested in knowing that.

[En Ex]

Great interview. What a fascinating individual.

[Starscre4M]

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[TheVoidDragon]

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I can't tell what he is carrying, what is it?

[Starscre4M]

it's a baby doll

[ithon]

it's a dr evil mini me doll to me.

I've sent the gif to Jeri, I don't know if she hasn't seen it but two valve employees I know have seen it.

Oh I remembered that Jeri was on a twit show around the time she just joined valve and leo leport was trying to woe her into having her own hack lab in the basement of the new twit building, It's great to put the pieces together.

Edit:

she facebook liked the gif.