{"id":2625,"date":"2009-02-20T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T23:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:58:07","slug":"doings-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/20\/doings-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Doings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished listening to an excellent audio version of Sun Tsu&#8217;s <strong>The Art of War<\/strong>. Wow, extremely worthwhile but watch out or you&#8217;ll start seeing the world in very extreme terms.<\/p>\n<p>Just before that, I finished listening to \u00a0Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s <strong>Cat&#8217;s Cradle<\/strong>. Bokonon is a bastard. I like him, I think.<\/p>\n<p>A few nights ago I went to a <a href=\" http:\/\/www.pecha-kucha.org\/cities\/san-francisco\/31\">Pecha Kucha<\/a> event with Charlotte and Barry Cogbill. I think I would have liked it better without the loud, incessent backbeat the DJ added to everything. Though I suppose we sat too close to the speakers. I like the idea though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been babysitting a bit. Tuesday and Wednesday. Tommy and I practiced spinning bamboo sticks, started a crystal growing kit growing, tried working out a way that he wouldn&#8217;t automatically win at his favorite game Heroscape, found out where the hidden laundry chute door is, re-worked some of his Mission to Mars Lego sets into cooler configurations (skeleton-footed rocket-pack aside), learned some karate, got really good at ReMovem on the iPod (knocking his sister&#8217;s scores off the high-scores), and all around had a good time. Phew and that was in just 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>I applied for a job with Michael&#8217;s company, Earthmine. Taking apart and rewiring fancy SLR cameras. It might have worked out but unfortunately (for me) a guy with an EE degree and a willingness to do the work presented himself well :-(<\/p>\n<p>Rich Humphrey had hired me 1 or so days per week to help with computer stuff. It really had the potential to go someplace but just two days ago his largest client didn&#8217;t get the funding it needed so they are likely folding \/ massively contracting soon&#8230; and Rich&#8217;s company is going into hibernation. :-(<\/p>\n<p>Last night Rich came to the SWARM meeting and I think really pointed the group in a good direction, toward very accessible robotics for the masses. :-)<\/p>\n<p>With all this laid-off-edness, I still never get enough time to work on the T. Pen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished listening to an excellent audio version of Sun Tsu&#8217;s The Art of War. Wow, extremely worthwhile but watch out or you&#8217;ll start seeing the world in very extreme terms. Just before that, I finished listening to \u00a0Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s Cat&#8217;s Cradle. Bokonon is a bastard. I like him, I think. A few nights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notable","category-playing-reading-watching-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","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=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}