Yesterday was amazing! I spent the whole afternoon listening and talking to CEOs and lead managers of the automotive industry about telematics (connected cars / autonomous technology). A month or two ago, I got a message on Linkedin from the CEO of a big Dutch automotive networking. He'd read my published article and wanted to invite me to his event on the topic. So I got invited and got the opportunity to talk to a lot of industry people. Meanwhile, I also started my bachelor's thesis, which will be (surprise surprise) about autonomous vehicles. I've already written the first 10%. My goal with it is to figure out what the most likely scenarios are for the progression of the technology, and to make some early predictions about what it will mean for our mobility and environment. Putting the two together meant that I now have multiple business cards and a possible meeting at one of the car company's EU HQ who's interested in my thesis. I also now have a ton of new insights, questions and research to do. Haven't been this excited in a while! Only downside is that I now really don't know what I'm gonna do after I graduate this June.
That's fantastic veen. It's pretty amazing what can come from a blog post. :) There is a massive vacuum in the space of autonomous vehicles that needs to be filled, and there is tremendous opportunity there. My brother-in-law were spit-balling AV scenarios last Sunday. I'd love to hear your thoughts sometime. I suspect that you are going to work it out.Only downside is that I now really don't know what I'm gonna do after I graduate this June.
These are some good looking business cards! I always admire how you take every opportunity available, I have seriously been trying to be a bit more like that myself too and it's working great. I can't believe I didn't do it sooner. Kinda regretting all the missed opportunities now.
I GOT A JOB OFFER! Had an interview monday and was offered a position on the spot, open once I graduate. It's a salary position with quarterly commission bonuses, and because of my experience they were willing to give me a small bump in both salary and commission. Lots of (School)work that needs to be done. Doable work, within a not unreasonable timeframe, but lots to do. I start my annual round of modeling tomorrow. I get paid to sit around and be poked, prodded and questioned by 2nd year med students. I like doing it, because I think that I'm a good change from the abundant geriatrics in the teaching unit, and I think it's good for prospective doctors to see the variety of illness they'll be treating, the variety of patients that can have terrible chronic diseases.
I'm quitting my fucking job finally In two months, granted. I asked some of you for feedback (thank you lil edit: and veen!) about an invite to Beijing I got from a family member, and I'm taking him up on it, leaving in May. I'm taking advantage of the opportunity to also visit Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and a place I've been interested in for a long time that has recently become quite a bit more open to visitors, Myanmar. Two years of lame, meandering experiments, rejected publications, staring at a computer pretending to work, an 1:20 hour commute daily (one way), mismanagement at every step, and finally left with stock in a company that I get to watch slowly dwindle before I can even sell it. I've definitely learned a lot about what not to do. That mostly consists of "Don't ever try to go the FDA route unless you got hella money and a really, really solid plan." But I sure as shit got paid well. Now I get to ignore the foreboding future a little longer while I try and plan out this ridiculous solo trip. Another quick tip I've learned: kindleunlimited sucks, but you can dl everything to your kindle, bounce that to your computer, scrape off the DRM, and voila, $200 worth of Lonely Planet guides for the price of a free month of kindleunlimited at amazon. Don't tell me I'm a thief, just tell me I'm a good one.
I find it hilarious that there are so many posts below about getting a job and you're happy to finally be out of one. Nevertheless, congrats! A friend of mine loves Cambodia / Myanmar and never fails to share interesting conversation about the NGOs there. At the kindleunlimited, I've been wanting an audible DRM-stripper, but nothing I could find worked on the files I had. Anyone know of leads on that front?
Absolutely, thank you so much for the offer! PM me your contact info so I can store it
Myanmar sounds awesome, pretty place. There's a few people at my work from Myanmar and they are wonderfully friendly, hopefully it holds true for the people you meet. Thailand sounds awesome too, I actually know 4 people there now and they are enjoying it. Cheap accommodations too.
I volunteered once in college to help Burmese (their choice of name, the difference is highly political) refugees adjust to life in America. They were the nicest people ever, and I've only heard wonderful things about their homeland.
AND I DONT HAVE TO COME HOME TO LA haHA! Oakland 4ever Just kidding, I couldn't resist. You're writing a book for god's sake, and I'm just gonna go be a white boy in somewhere different for a little bit.
I am a sound mixer. I have an engineering degree, and have worked in a profession where one must be licensed to be an engineer. Sound mixing is not engineering. I will charitably call anything I've made enough money at to declare on my taxes an "occupation." In no particular order, I have been: - a convenience store clerk - a toystore cashier - a bookstore cashier - a club mixer - an architectural consultant - an audiovisual systems designer - a motion picture editor - a screenwriter - a photographer I would love to write novels for a living but it isn't up to me.
Cool I also feel it was rather rambly. After the fact too I realized I lied. I have two "can I do this/can you help me figure out how?" ideas - one of which is just the metrics i mentioned. Anyway, thanks, and PM me when they fix it I guess haha. Sometimes I wonder if the underscores in my username mess with Hubski. Probably not - though, did anyone else ever see mute notifications on comments in threads where the you weren't muted by the poster or the commenter?
Ah, my bad. I just read that, too. I really like Fruitvale, but I hardly ever have a reason to go down there, besides beignets. I should do that this weekend.
Congratulations on your impending freedom and travels. You have much to look forward to. Without the shitty job experience, you wouldn't appreciate this upcoming freedom as much as you are likely to. -so that's worthwhile, right? I look forward to Hubski stickers posted throughout Asia. On me your address prior to your travels and I'll send some over.
It wasn't the worst thing, I'm just a complainer by nature, but I'm definitely jumping ship on the Titanic, for sure. I don't regret it at all, I needed the experience and new skills, not to mention the money, so it's a clean break. I have some stickers I asked for a while back and haven't done much with, but they'll be put to good use now, promise.
The Good: Sister starts applying for Stanford et. al soon (I say et. al. because she's a shoe-in everywhere else). I am proud of her but also very anxious. Her Latin teacher asked me to be a chaperone for her class' Rome trip, and since it's all-expenses paid, flight included, I can split the ticket-price for my sister with my mom. So, Rome next year? Mayhaps. Also got our tickets for Passion Pit in may. Hype. Also, have a dedicated site now: http://www.eightbitsamurai.co I'll be learning a lot over the next few weeks whilst I take care of the thing. Learning SEO stuff. The New Girl. We played Smash for a good two hours and it was super. She spiked my Toon Link, and subsequently spiked her way into my heart. The Meh: Learning SEO stuff. Something about it just feels icky. THIS WEATHER GODDAMMIT. I need new arch supports, which means my boots are killing me until I get some. Curse these flat-feet. And it's so dry, why is Colorado so dry. Didn't get the internship I applied for. I'm not too worried about it, though. The job I have now is worth an internship and a half, and the stuff I do actually impacts the school as opposed to running around giving people coffee or whatever. But it woulda been a nice badge to add to the resume. I'll keep lookin. The Bad: The Roommate Saga I think I've mentioned the intense hatred I happen to have for the apartment I currently live in and the roommates I currently live with but I don't think I've ever elaborated on it. I come from a very clean household, meaning...well, just take a look at some pictures: "Washed dishes" "This, is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s" "It's cool, I didn't need to use it anyways." Beyond this, I've basically had to hoard all of my supplies under my bed after they ran out of toilet paper, and, rather than get more, decided to use my $20 kitchen paper instead. Simultaneously almost clogging the toilet. And this doesn't even include the part where they refuse to buy or clean anything. In any case. I'm trying to get my own place soon. The exceeded price would be worth the mental soundness. Edit: Forgot that I've been playing with rasterization and paint brush textures to create fancy portraits. Who's this sexy man I see in the computer screen?
You look so good that unfortunately I've concluded that the girl that asked you out supposedly because of your sick animation skillz probably didn't think you were such a good animator. She just wanted to hang out with your pretty face for a while. Sorry dude :(
Learning to live with shit-head roommates is a chore. I can really sympathize because I lived with nine other people for a year: two had never washed a dish in their lives, several had never cooked a meal before. Which is fine, you know, you can't judge. People come into this world with different resources and in different environments. The lesson I learned though is to not shy away from having the conversation where terms are defined with those with whom you share a living space, like I did for a few months. Take "clean dish". That would seem like a pretty uncontroversial subject, but you'd be really surprised at the level of ambiguity that's supposedly inherent to the idea of a clean dish. Anyways, norm-setting and assertion is key, and assertion is good communication skills. /unsolicited advice
Are your roommates trying to take advantage of you? Like you particularly? It almost sounds like that may be the case. You should bounce for a week, and see if they manage on their own or really do rely on you.
Oh yeah, as soon as I had taken all the stuff that I had brought for us to use in the apartment, they got butt-hurt. I've basically created a system where the area around me is clean, and the stuff that I use in the apartment is clean, but everything else can just decay to hell. One of them, "Luke", in particular is rather cheap and subsequently manipulative. He and I pay the same price, while the third has his own room so he pays a little more than us. When I had taken all of the stuff that I had bought because I was sick of nobody doing their share, "Luke" decided to get Roommate 3 to buy supplies for him, even though Roommate 3 already pays more for rent. There's more, but to sum it up, Luke is a bit of an asshole.
Roommate drama is the worst and most pointless drama on earth. You have pretty much three options: 1) get rid of the leeches 2) leave 3) sit back and take it Having good roommates is a godsend, and can be insanely fun. I would encourage you to try and find some good ones, because living alone is the defacto for most of the rest of your life (barring, of course, partners/gfs/spouses/etc). If you like Game of Thrones level drama, you can totally play them against each other and find more ideal roommates. Get the other roommate pissed at Luke and gang up to give him his 30 days, then get a new, clean, video-game loving roommate that you can use to ostracize the other one, or, at the very least, create a barrier so that the mess is contained within their room. Don't play nice, the sanctity of home should not be violated, and everyone is always trying to get their cut of the pie.
As a final addendum, for the three of you out there that care, there are like 3-4 Hubskina chapters left. They're gonna be extra long. And even weirder than everything else that's come beforehand. That's right, you thought it couldn't get any weirder, but boy-o you were wrong.
I'm one of the three (hundred) that care about the Hubskina chapters and very glad that we don't have to wait until Ramadan for the conclusion. The Heros of Hubskina are assembling.... the Tidder forces seem plentiful but weak... nowaypablo's has created Pablo's Notes and Study Guide up to about chapter 10. There will be a quiz.
Ah yes, I hit a brick wall of busy after taking up that task.
Errderrderr, def gonna resume it though!!!
Started an Indiegogo campaign to see if I can pay off my loans. I figure there's only benefit in trying.
Things Happen. Things Happening: 1) I'm disowning my bar, a little bit.
3) My brother got into grad school for a fiction MFA! REALLY awesome! 4) Outside: Snowpocalypse. 5) Inside: Moving along plans to self-publish a lil volume of poetry. I've mentioned it off and on in Pubskis for months now. It's a big project. I'm getting one final proofread, my brother volunteered to help me collate the paper and stamp the covers, so soon it'll just be a matter of printing, binding, and registering a shop on Etsy. Which is crazy. 6) I have exes that are not only married, but now have children - not accident-children, either, but planned ones. Ugh AND haha. 7) I'd say in general things are looking good. I'd love to believe I'll get into grad school, too, but it's too much of a long shot to entertain much as a thought. Nothing new on the house front. 6) Work: ups and downs as always. I'm taking on more and more challenging work, which intimidates me, but at the same time I know very well that I rise to expectations that are set - but only when they are set. i.e., you say do "x" I'll do "x," but that's all you're going to get. The more I sign myself up for and the bigger the challenge, especially at work, the better I perform overall. Speaking of, I'm gunning for a promotion this year. If I don't fuck anything up I think I'll swing it. That'll be nice. If I get it, it'll be the first merit-based promotion (internal) I've ever gotten. That's all I got for now folx! Just the what's up of my life. I guess it's rather two-dimensional, not a lot of philosophy right now, but hey - sometimes that's the best you've got to share.
2) Another Poem Acceptance! From a magazine I'd really thought would like what I sent them, so I'm glad they did. Also, I'm going to get paid for it again! So now I've made like $20 from mixing words around on paper! Why?
- tired of being embarrassed for crushing on bartender who, frankly, I am more cool than
- bad experience with another regular who decided to give me "advice" which basically translated to "i think you're entitled and haven't had any hard knocks and you're about to get some"
- counting calories
- drinking less, trying to smoke less
- recent frequent work travel helps all this
Question: how will tag "stats" work? Something that makes me sad is I can't really find, say, all finance.flagamuffin posts or whatever, because my username is only affixed to personal not "community" (even though no one ever changes my tags). And I want to be able to index through my posts and list both tag1.flagamuffin and tag2.flagamuffin, since I use hubski as a big ol' archive. Sometimes when posting I have to guess which category I will in future most likely want a given article to be under.
Yeah, I sure wish I could archive posts and comments. I think it would be great if I could archive, say "Steve's science posts" and I could actively send posts that I make, others make, comments etc. to that archive. I could curate it and others could even follow it or occasionally go check it out in a more passive way. We could have a page of all the archives and eventually the "top followed" archives. I could share it On other social media sites, invite my friends to check out my "science archive on Hubski." -I've been pushing this idea for years to no avail. I even call them "archives." I like the way you think flag.
Tag stast: just https://hubski.com/tag?id=thehumancondition.flagamuffin https://hubski.com/tag?id=racism followers of each, current users, old posts etc. But currently I can't put one post into two personal tag archives at once. I never really liked community tags, to be honest. Didn't seem to address a problem that existed. -- The archive part is fine with the caveat that a) search doesn't work and b) there seems to be some sort of hard limit to how far back various pages reach, and it's not the beginning of the site, it's more recent. So I often run into blank pages when I look at https://hubski.com/domain?id=nytimes.com (except with a different domain) that I know I have submitted to hubski at least once, but can no longer find. I use hubski as an archive because I have a crazily compartmental memory and I often forget where to find things but can remember <hubski flagamuffin one keyword> for google. Ideally: hubski has infinite recall and a google-esque search engine, but practically only the first one is very important.
Thanks. Although it might not be what you'd prefer, you can now add two personal tags to a post. The archives idea is one that we are going to have to revisit. It does seem like there is a desire for it. However we have yet to come up with a functionality that isn't overly complex. If you have any ideas how you might like an archiving function to work, definitely share with us. forwardslash was charged this week with investigating solutions to this problem. Hubski has two problems in this regard: 1) we store data in flat files rather than in a proper (relational) database, 2) the Hubski app keeps accessible posts in memory, and does not serve up the whole of a directory in a efficient manner. Personally, I feel that this is one of the most glaring shortcomings of Hubski, and its one that I want to fix. It is holding us back in more ways than one.But currently I can't put one post into two personal tag archives at once.
Ideally: hubski has infinite recall and a google-esque search engine, but practically only the first one is very important.
The archives idea is one that we are going to have to revisit. It does seem like there is a desire for it. However we have yet to come up with a functionality that doesn't seem overly complex. If you have any ideas how you might like an archiving function to work, definitely share with us. Right, now I can. But I didn't mean what tng was talking about (necessarily -- I think it's cool). I don't need any more functionality from hubski for my archiving purposes. I just need perfect recall. But I don't see how adding more specific submenus and so on could hurt, if there's demand. I bet tng is thinking along the lines of saved posts, but saved posts I use for a completely different purpose than hubski-archive. The point isn't for me to be able to sort everything into "steve's science posts" etc as I submit it. I just want to be able to find old stuff quickly, not categorize. [Caveat: I do like the "tag stats" menus for categorization because they allow me to see who most uses a given tag, and thus which users I should follow and am not.] Good to hear. EDIT: insomniasexx I just read your comment on the update about wanting to know how/why anyone uses personal tags. It occurred to me that although I use them a lot to see stuff, I don't actually follow any/that many -- if you wanna skim through this conversation and add input, thanks.Although it might not be what you'd prefer, you can now add two personal tags to a post.
forwardslash was charged this week with investigating solutions to this problem.
This have been very good. Submitted a paper to a fancy journal a week ago and will submit another in the coming weeks. I've also been playing in a band for several months now which has been awesome, and we're starting to line up some big shows. Right now I am killing it.
I'm in a corporate training for the next few days. Usually these types of things are pretty obnoxious, however this one has been pretty good. The first day was a team building scavenger/history hunt in the French Quarter, pretty awesome to spend the day galevanting throughout the city. Sales training all day, role play etc. I volunteered first and killed it. -still have it. 3 more hours and then we break for an hour and hit dinner. I miss my kids. A lot
I just got the feedback for the the collaborative projection mapping project that I completed at the beginning of this year. Drum roll... 80! To quote the assessment guidelines: Needless to say, I am thrilled. Especially considering the challenges that this project presented and the lack of confidence I had at one point in the process. Of course, big thanks must also go to my collaborator! However, I can't get complacent. The big work begins imminently. Between now and September I am to completed a 40 minute portfolio and a 10,000 - 12,000 word dissertation. These combine to form half of the entire marks for my course, so I best get to work.Work at this level will show an authoritative level of technical and artistic skill and will demonstrate a high degree of exploration and originality of thought. Presentation of the submitted material will reflect utmost professionalism and an awareness of current best practice. The work will be of a standard likely to attract national attention and the student will be able to contextualise it in relation to recent achievement in contemporary music.
Only two finals still stand in my way. Either I'll conquer them and my reward will be spring break, or they'll crush me and spring break will be more of a Valhalla. Either way, I'm still riding the high from my admission to Raikes! And I still have to spend the whole break in recovery from having my wisdom teeth removed... But the rest of my senior year should be pretty easy. Last week I handed in 4 major long-term projects, so, as far as IB goes, my main focus needs to be exams in May. Things have been much better for me lately!
Antique shops freak me out. I have an anxiety based fear of them. I constantly feel like, at any moment, I am going to fall over and cause tens of thousands dollars worth of damage.
In a funk where it doesn't feel like anything exciting is happening. No plans for spring break later this month, no new exciting things happening in life, no plans for making something exciting happen because what's the point when I'm gone in 4 months, it's this weird flux between being in college and moving on to what's next where my mind is between the two spaces (I guess it's a bit dissociative) and feels like I'm never going to amount to anything. Doing some prep work by redoing a lot of my wardrobe which is coming along nicely and trying to figure out if I should just buy a used car here and drive cross-country or buy a plane ticket and buy a car once I'm out west. Anybody here drive clear across the country before? Seems like a fun adventure. mk is there a way to make draft text not be orange/can I have an option? Maybe it's just me but my eyes don't seem to be a big fan of reading a block of orange text.
It was pretty rad, man. When you've been driving all night in crazy (really crazy, remember for the rest of my life crazy) fog through Kentucky and the sun rises and it turns out West Virginia is beautiful... And then up into the hills of Shenandoah and finally you hit the ocean. I really liked that trip. I was with a couple friends, but normally I travel solo because I like being alone in new places. I've also been west. I prefer driving west, like mainlining the Beat generation, except my car is too nice. And the sun sets in front of you, which is awful but also amazing in big sky country. And the geology is about a thousand times more interesting. The clouds. Quieter, way more semis on the freeways. I fucking love to drive. Next week I'm flying to Iceland to do a road trip there, which is slightly complicated. If I had my way I'd simply drive to Iceland. Never forget. If you're on the fence about doing it, read Blue Highways and you won't be anymore.
Never heard of Blue Highways but there are a couple of copies at the library here so I know what I'm reading next now, thanks!
That sounds like a great trip, I'd pass on the California part of it for now though but...it's so tempting. But as I'm saying to mk the thing holding me back is the having a reliable enough vehicle to make it work, mostly. Would still have to figure out how to get my possessions from East to West too. It's either do that, stay east and go to Solid Sound because holy fuck thenewgreen the lineup was just announced and it's incredible and if you haven't seen it you need to. Or say screw it to all of the above and take the path of least resistance and just fly west...but seeing things like Rushmore and Old Faithful and whatever else...not an opportunity a person has every day...
T-Dog, no Blisters? I'm going to try my damnedest to be there this year, but it's looking rough....
I've done it a couple of times. Once it was from Michigan to Seattle to San Diego and back. IMO it's worth doing at least once. It gave me a new perspective on the US. If anything, I'd like to reduce the number of toggles we have. If there seems a consensus on something like the shoutout blue, I'd be game. But I'm not too keen on expanding the color palate. One benefit of the orange might be to induce people to complete the drafts they have. :)mk is there a way to make draft text not be orange/can I have an option?
It certainly jumps out at you and makes it hard to forget that you started a draft, I'll give you that. Did you go with people when you did that? There's a lot of logistical nightmares involved with this like: buying the car and being okay with throwing 3k miles on it right off the bat, moving items with me, all that. Plus hotels and gas and food which I'm assuming cost a ton of money to travel all that way. It seems fun but like a lot of time, effort, and money to make it happen.
On the longest trip, there were three of us. We used a friend's car, and split the gas three ways. We would stay at a in a campground in a tent every other night, and sleep in the car at rest stops on the others. It was very cheap. Most days I ate canned peas and cold spagettios. If you are moving one way. I'd just bring a tent, and sleep in your car half the time. Campgrounds are nice because they have showers. You might be able to get a beater car, and sell it at your destination.