tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915202024-03-13T12:52:12.955-04:00jcarroll.netJason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comBlogger640125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-80076681833804257652022-07-15T08:46:00.003-04:002022-08-21T15:29:08.793-04:00Hello,...my name is Jason Carroll (middle initial 'R', after my grandpa, Bob). I'm a real estate developer, and currently serve as Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Development at a multifamily real estate development <a href="https://coniferllc.com/">company</a> based in Rochester, New York. Over the past 20+ years, I've been involved in a leadership capacity in completed transactions totaling well over $1 billion—spanning nearly every aspect of real estate development, from finance to design. My specialty is creating value in underutilized assets, and I'm currently focused on developing affordable and workforce housing. Many of the projects I'm involved with utilize fairly complicated financial structures and public funding sources, so that has evolved into a specialty of mine. More details: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonrcarroll">LinkedIn</a>. <br />
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To keep myself sharp (a person doesn't really understand something unless they can explain it simply), I teach real estate investment and development to grad students at Kent State University's <a href="https://www.kent.edu/caed">College of Architecture</a>.<br />
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I used to be an architect—art, design, urban planning, and the general built environment are all passions of mine. I try to keep creativity flowing through <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/onesix18/collections/72157630012511537/">photography</a>, travel, reading, <a href="https://jasonrobertcarroll.blogspot.com/p/axonometrics.html">drawing</a> on my old Dietzgen drafting table, a keen interest in all things design, and an ongoing amateur attempt to study philosophy. I'm an avid tech junkie, hobbyist <a href="https://github.com/JasonRobertC">programmer</a>, love collecting (and using) vintage audio equipment and electronics, and can make espresso that gives any barista a run for their money. I quite like <a href="https://www.norpca.org/">sports cars</a>, and you'll occasionally find me driving on backroads with no destination, for fun and meditation. <br />
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I'm an alumnus of Cornell University (graduate) and Kent State University (undergraduate), and currently reside with my <a href="http://jcarroll.net/photo/wynwood.jpg">wife, son, and daughter</a> in Shaker Heights, Ohio—a beautiful, old, tree-filled, first-ring suburb of Cleveland—where I serve on the <a href="https://www.shakeronline.com/327/Landmark-Commission">Landmark Commission</a>. <br />
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<i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>***</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div>(</i><i>Personal blog begins below</i><i>.)</i>Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-50561604158557770912019-09-30T10:04:00.000-04:002019-11-08T10:05:40.840-05:00Thankful for the simple but wonderful nights with my family, when we're home together and all the windows are open, and the weather's perfect, and we eat dinner together and talk a little, and then the kids do homework at the dining room table while we clean up the kitchen.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-88022110985407658392019-09-18T10:02:00.000-04:002019-11-08T10:03:59.178-05:00Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable." — Arthur Conan DoyleJason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-89390941859126644992019-09-13T10:00:00.000-04:002019-11-08T10:01:16.201-05:00"Gird yourself about with philosophy, an impregnable wall. Though it be assaulted by many engines, Fortune can find no passage into it." — Seneca The YoungerJason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-75289252772385164722019-08-26T09:55:00.000-04:002019-11-08T09:55:34.222-05:00"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man." — David HumeJason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-77860605467748415942019-08-12T09:51:00.000-04:002019-11-08T09:52:21.896-05:00A picture is worth a thousand words, and an action is worth ten times that again.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-8843591346165603032019-08-01T09:48:00.000-04:002019-11-08T09:52:32.499-05:00If you're angry all the time, you're probably not getting much done.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-72279211172367769322019-07-19T08:45:00.000-04:002019-11-08T09:45:55.131-05:00Family Trip to Japan 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our second trip to Japan as a family.</div>
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Visited some old friends, saw some new faces,</div>
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Revisited a few favorites, discovered some new places.</div>
Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-21802733261319480492019-06-13T08:30:00.000-04:002019-11-08T08:30:57.739-05:00We are the music makers,<br />
And we are the dreamers of dreams,<br />
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,<br />
And sitting by desolate streams; —<br />
World-losers and world-forsakers,<br />
On whom the pale moon gleams:<br />
Yet we are the movers and shakers<br />
Of the world for ever, it seems.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-12171771774795268402019-05-28T11:44:00.000-04:002019-11-08T08:33:15.774-05:00Computer Spec Evolution<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you know me, you know I'm a tech junkie, and you know I love fiddling with things. To that end—if you happen to be interested—below is the evolution of our household's main PC specs since February 1, 2007 </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(updated 5/27/19). <b>Bold </b>indicates current status: </span><br />
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</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 5.5in;" width="528">1. Intel Core2 Duo (2-Core) E6600 2.4 GHz (original to system 2/1/07)<br />
2. Intel Core2 Quad (4-Core) Q6600 2.4 GHz (upgrade 9/13/11)<br />
3. AMD FX 8350 (8-Core; 2 logical x 4 physical) 4.0 GHz (upgrade 12/29/12); upgraded stock CPU cooler to Zalman CNPS8900 on 12/27/13<br />
<b>4. Intel Core i5-9400F Coffee Lake 6-Core 2.9 GHz (5/27/19) </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. 2 GB (2x 1 GB) OCZ Gold DDR2-800 SDRAM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. 16 GB (2x 8 GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1333 SDRAM (12/29/12)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>4. 16 GB (2x 8 GB) 2666 DDR4-RAM (5/27/19) </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512 MB (upgrade 12/26/08)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. MSi </span>Radeon HD 7870 2 GB (upgrade 3/31/13) - card went bad<br />
4. XFX Radeon R9 380 2GB (upgrade 8/13/15)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. 1.0 TB: 2x Maxtor 500 GB, 3.0 Gb/s, 7,200-RPM, 16 MB cache (now repurposed as external media & backup drives)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. 5.75 TB: <strike>Seagate Barracuda 2.0 TB</strike> Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB + Hitachi Deskstar 1.5 TB, 6.0 Gb/s, 7,200 RPM, 64 MB Cache + <strike>64</strike> 256 GB <strike>Samsung (2011)</strike> Sandisk (2014) Solid State Boot Drive + 2x Toshiba 1TB external media & backup drives<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. 6.0 TB: </span>Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB + Hitachi Deskstar 1.5 TB, 6.0 Gb/s, 7,200 RPM, 64 MB Cache + 500 GB Western Digital Blue SSD Boot Drive + 2x Toshiba 1TB external media & backup drives (5/27/19) </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Upgraded PSU to Thermaltake 850W (12/29/12)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Logitech wireless keyboard, mouse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Keyboard, Razer Naga Epic Mouse (upgrade 1/3/11)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>3. Razer BlackWidow Chroma, Razer Naga Chroma (upgrade 11/24/2016) </b></span></div>
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Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-6509833918079103442019-04-15T08:27:00.000-04:002019-11-08T08:27:29.784-05:00"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." — Martin BuberJason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-35350183365152470592019-03-17T10:24:00.003-04:002019-06-06T07:21:58.505-04:00Five Stories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Collage I made from newspaper images.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-68193669736958830132019-03-04T06:37:00.000-05:002019-03-22T09:44:32.272-04:00I'm an optimist, but I walk through life with the recognition that there are usually more ways for things to go wrong than to go right. It's just the way things are—entropy.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-69764652045219891782019-02-11T06:59:00.000-05:002019-03-22T09:43:01.081-04:00"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it." — Bruce LeeJason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-24694528367656081372019-01-22T06:38:00.000-05:002019-03-22T09:39:13.178-04:00"I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead." — Kurt VonnegutJason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-22460326446745405872019-01-01T09:37:00.000-05:002019-03-22T09:37:39.577-04:00There is no "meaning of life". Meaning is a result of life.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-64291729367359245142018-11-13T08:00:00.000-05:002018-11-14T08:01:23.399-05:00Good advice can come from bad places.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-33966262104339067182018-11-06T07:45:00.002-05:002019-03-17T10:25:44.522-04:00Fourth Axonometric Composition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-60532414471953518222018-11-05T08:02:00.000-05:002018-11-14T08:03:57.139-05:00Politics is the lazy, underachieving, slacker friend of philosophy.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-38086589259810395632018-11-04T17:28:00.002-05:002018-11-04T17:28:28.418-05:00A Late Fall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fall came to our house a bit late this year. The Great Old Ones in our yard finally decided to change color.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-48846565892022036662018-11-02T08:06:00.000-04:002018-11-14T08:06:45.488-05:00One must imagine Sisyphus happy"One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." — Albert CamusJason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-15156689100092645262018-08-31T09:53:00.000-04:002019-03-17T10:26:00.463-04:00Third Axonometric Composition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Composition of sixteen hand-drawn axonometrics (each based on a 2" x 2" cube); composed on a gradient background generated by blending pure colors with photographs I took and then blurred.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-15444763482958418682018-07-11T08:19:00.000-04:002018-11-15T08:20:27.923-05:00The Distinction Between Future And PastThe past and future are the same in that they both exist only in our minds. Is the difference really that great? Future memories. Past anticipations. We experience only the present.<br />
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You can relive past experiences in the same detail as you pre-live future experiences in your imagination.<br />
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One might argue that the past is more clearly defined and the future is unknown. But they can both be ambiguous or precise depending on how you treat them in your mind.<br />
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The past and the future both have many branching paths. The only difference is that past contains the path taken, and the future contains the path to be taken. But all the branches are still in both places.<br />
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In our minds, we can choose to walk down different branches in the past (memories of what could have been), and in the future (playing-out of various choices).<br />
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All past time is in the same place. All future time is in the same place.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-81235475759284983382018-03-31T08:00:00.000-04:002019-03-17T10:26:12.250-04:00Axonometric Composition, Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Companion piece to <a href="http://jasonrobertcarroll.blogspot.com/2018/01/#6052671658202569171">this drawing</a>.Jason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-391520.post-51032799278516890132018-02-01T08:22:00.000-05:002018-11-15T08:22:55.740-05:00"Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order." — Herman MelvilleJason R. Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541625373373668564noreply@blogger.com