{"id":2075,"date":"2008-06-24T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2008-06-24T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T18:25:34","slug":"whats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/whats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today: went to acupuncture. I feel great after.<\/p>\n<p>Mailed off several boxes of photos from Morley&#8217;s house. Productive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Went to the Box Shop. I was greeted with 3 different people wanting help from me :-).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Figuring out how to keep a Mac Mini cool on the playa (put it in an ice chest in a waterproof box, replace the ice daily, (to be experimented with))<\/li>\n<li>batteries for Mutopia (loaned from the vast pool of batteries that Peter Luka gave SWARM)<\/li>\n<li>Welding together some petals for this firey flower. I practiced and then was able to TIG weld the thin stainless steel for the first time. :-)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Finally got FL Studio. I&#8217;m excited about making 6 part music for SWARM. One thing I&#8217;m going to do is transcribe some poliphonic african drumming music I learned in college and have each orb play an instrument :-). That music from Professor David Locke&#8217;s class is STILL buzzing around in my head more than 15 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few days, I&#8217;ve cleaned house in a few ways.<\/p>\n<p>I went to my neighbor Samantha&#8217;s apartment and her place looked so gosh darn airy and serene. I vowed to make some of that happen in my apartment so I&#8217;ve cleaned the house and put lots of things AWAY. Clearning the sight-lines is the best&#8230; I cleaned the tops of bookshelves so you can see more wall and glass-doors. Charlotte got into the act and cleaned such that it&#8217;s easy to open and close the doors between the kitchen and living room. I was really struck that in Samantha&#8217;s place, all the doors were workable; in our place, we&#8217;ve blocked open one set and blocked closed one set :-(. That&#8217;s got to be some feng shui no-no. In any case, it feels better to have a clean place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been cleaning at the Box Shop. SWARM&#8217;s work space had become a mess. Under our work table was this scary jumble of parts with no order. I found all the items that don&#8217;t belong and told the mailing list &#8220;claim it or it gets discarded&#8221;. Some items were claimed and some are destined for the trash bin. I put all the scrap in a scrap bin, put all the long items in one pile, got some parts boxes and put parts away. I threw away like 5 large cardboard boxes and 30 tiny boxes. I found that we have duplicates of lots of bolt-y things. Hopefully, that process now has a chance of reversing itself. Everything fits in 2\/3 the space and is much more findable. There&#8217;s a ways to go with sorting through electronics items that we might or might not use any more but things are way way better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today: went to acupuncture. I feel great after. Mailed off several boxes of photos from Morley&#8217;s house. Productive&#8230; Went to the Box Shop. I was greeted with 3 different people wanting help from me :-). Figuring out how to keep a Mac Mini cool on the playa (put it in an ice chest in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}