Ryan C.
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Barbados
The company I work for, Automattic, is a distributed company. That means our employees live and work all over the world. A few times each year, we meet up to spend time working and having fun together. I’ve just returned from a meetup in Barbados, where we worked on the email subscription feature of WordPress.com and Jetpack.
The Portugese came to Barbados en route to Brazil. It was at this time that the island was named Los Barbados (bearded-ones) by the Portugese explorer Pedro a Campos.
— Barbados.org
We spent most of our days working at the hotel, taking breaks to go swimming, and venturing into town in the evening for dinner. On our last full day, we spent a few hours on a small catamaran and then toured the Mount Gay Rum Distillery. Here are some a ton of photos from the trip!
Back at work
Stylin’ at BGI
In deep thought
Pra$ath
I hope that was “wins”…
Ugh, another meeting
Ocean selfie: Success
Oh hai
Moment of impact
Waves, etc.
Diving
Catching a wave
Celebrity onboard
The hotel
I spy…
“Are we there yet?”
La playa
O hai.
When in Rome…
Watching some cricket
Some more waves
Sunset
Swimatticians
Exploring
Bajan fish fry
Bridgetown
Diving
Business meeting
Breakfast
+t +d adorbz
Last night
Oh hai
El capitan
“Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”
Sunset
“Roger, Roger, what’s our vector, Victor?”
ʇnʍ
Ocean selfie: Failure
Working
Twinsies
Horrendous work conditions
Fish fry festival
TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fresh pineapple
Onboard
Tortuga
Oh hai
To Bridgetown
wut.
Back to the hotel
Bridgetown
Bridgetown
Relaxamatticians
Shipwreck
Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour
Kayakamatticians
Break time!
Lunch!
(poolparty)
The locals
Great hat, Kidder!
Hose selfie
Lunch at MIA
Grim reaper
Just hanging out here in Canada…
Fitting in with the locals
Shipwreck
Did somebody say, “Rum?”
I’m incredibly graceful
Sea turtle
Hotel from the sea
Elegance
Broken sunglasses
Oh, Canada….
Miguel in his natural habitat
Back to the boat
Until next time…
Clicky en la agua
Break time
Another Canadian flag…
Hotel restaurant
Fish fry
Want to see some more? Check out my coworker/friend Steve’s photos here. Want to be a part of this, and help make the web a better place for more than a billion people each month? We’re hiring.
I’m getting a real case of beard envy – never been able to grow a proper one. Excellent beardmanship! Oh yeah, and a touch of job envy too! 😀
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Thanks, John. I can’t really help with the beard… but I’ll just leave this here.
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You do make an excellent point! 🙂
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Reblogged this on clickysteve and commented:
Some awesome pictures from my pal/colleague Ryan Cowles of the Barbados trip.
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Are these all from the GoPro? They look so cool. Tempted to get one
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Some are from the GoPro, and some from my S4. The video came out better than the pictures under water, but I have yet to upload those 🙂
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gosh, i miss this place .. great pics!
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Thank you! It was beautiful.
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We had a decent amount of fun, sun and rum (that *almost* rhymed!). It was a blast hanging out with you and the rest, Ryan. Hasta la próxima!
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I’m going to allow the rhyme. Thanks for putting everything together, Richard! Y sí, hasta la próxima!
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Reblogged this on Dustin Hartzler and commented:
Had a great time last week with some of my Automattic coworkers!
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