The Chronicles of Stuffed Guys

With this post I am starting a series of introduction posts of everyone who works in Stuffed Guys. Right now there are only 3 of us. So, without further ado:

Meet Ivan Kuindji

  

Ivan has more then 4 years experience in creating corporate sites, mostly as a developer of his own Content Management System. In Stuffed Guys he is responsible for a complete re-write of Stuffed Tracker, our ROI tracking tool.

His family name “Kuindji” comes from his far ancestor Arhip Kuindji, famous Russian painter. Ivan also expresses his creativity in music, you can check out his compositions here.

When I asked him to write a small introduction for himself for this blog, he suggested to post a tale by Toon Tellegen instead. He said it describes him better. I couldn’t find the tale in English, so here is my amateur translation from Russian.

Early in the morning, when Squirrel was still in bed, someone knocked at the door.

- Who’s there? – asked Squirrel.
- It’s me – replied a voice. – Elephant.
- You want to come in? – asked Squirrel.

For several minutes there was silence, and then Elephant asked:

- Let’s dance?
- Dance? – asked Squirrel. – Now?
- Why not?
- Well – replied Squirrel. – Actually it is so early.
- So you don’t want to? – asked Elephant.

Squirrel thought for a second and said:

- And where do you want to dance?
- Why not here, on the branch, near the door – replied Elephant.
- But there is no space there!
- We will snuggle up together – decided Elephant.
- But then we will fall down!
- Oh – said Elephant – So you don’t want to dance.

Squirrel got out of the bed.

Then she put one arm on the Elephant’s shoulder and another on his waist. Elephant warned that he will count till three, scratched his head and counted till three. They made only one move, stumbled and crashed down. Shocked from hitting the ground, they laid in the wet grass under the beech.

- It was a silly idea, right? – asked Elephant.
- Not at all – said Squirrel. She rubbed a bump on the head and thought that they danced very well.