June 19, 2003
Bum
(Still...catching...up)
It's official. I'm a bum now. Worse, a beach bum. I like it.
Two weeks ago Friday I said sayonara to Evolution Robotics (well, full-time, at least) and being gainfully (?) employed. I have nothing to do until late August, when school starts.
It's incredible. While some days I do make the heroic effort and Get Stuff Done, mostly I just do what I feel like. Imagine that.
At first I went on a reading binge. Light and easy Sci Fi. I chomped 1400 pages or so in the first week, knocking off The Cat Who Walked Through Walls (amusing, though my enjoyment was ruined by the "ha ha" ending), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (can you believe I hadn't read it? I'm so much hipper now, knowing where that Radiohead song title came from), and the Foundation Trilogy (rereading, now those are what I call good books).
Then I went into programming, doing those projects I never had time for. I finished my English parser using the Earley algorithm, arbitrary CFG, and lexicon. And the past few days, I did a rough cut of a music loop sequencer (TODO: write about these in i/o).
And I've been running and biking on the beach. And cooking a bit. And drinking nice bits of wine and beer. And sunbathing, when the June Gloom breaks. And, get this, I've only been in a car three times in the past two weeks. About five to ten minutes each time. Ahhhhhhhh.
Oh, and I finally stitched together the 360 degree pan of my old seat at work (And Gimped. A lot. Can you find the evidence? I think you can!) JPEG and Quicktime VR for your amusement.
Now back to bumming.
You've read the book. You've seen the movie.
Now, experience the Quicktime VR of...
Tom's Chair.