My Favorite Blog Posts of 2015 - thanks for reading

I have been blogging since February 14, 2006. Normally I write about new, updated, retired, or graduated technology previews on Autodesk Labs. Blogging is a way to spread the word about a technology to encourage potential users to try the preview. It's part of my job. For my first two years of blogging, I pretty much covered just the technologies and nothing else. I did this because:

1. I didn't think my life was that interesting.
2. I figured a typical Autodesk customer couldn't care less about what that Scott Sheppard guy did apart from Autodesk Labs.

Then one day our CEO, Carl Bass, told me "You know Scott, if you're going to blog, people kind of want to feel like they're hanging out with you." Not that this immediately changed my feelings on those two bullet points above, but it did get me to share more of my personality on my blog. I started using every bad pun possible and covered non-work-related topics. So in the spirit of blog posts that are not the run-of-the-mill technology preview announcements, here are my favorites for 2015 (in no particular order).

1. Engraving Cutting Boards at the Autodesk Pier 9 Office

2. Our Stikwood Powder Room Wall

3. The Reality Solutions Team Visited 16th Street Station

4. Stop calling it a glitch - it's either a defect or a bug

5. The Autodesk Innovation Genome: An American History Example

6. How My Home Network Has Changed Over The Years

7. New Vending Machine: You call this progress?

8. Artoo In Love: Lights! Camera! Fabrication Action!

9. The Internet of Things: The Connected Closet

10. Clue Carre Escape Game is a Spectacular Way to Spend an Hour

I am always happy when I have written a book review.

1. Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel

2. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

3. How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson

Like I have done for previous years (2013, 2014), I have grouped my favorites into their own category for 2015. Al book reviews appear under a Books category.

Thanks to all the It's Alive in the Lab readers who make this blog possible. Here's looking forward to another year of blogging in 2016.

Personal indulgence is alive in the lab.