{"id":248,"date":"2007-02-06T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2007-02-06T01:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T01:51:00","slug":"back-in-cambridge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Back in Cambridge!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back from roadtripping across Germany. Enormous fun! I love travel. I love Europe. But I love Cambridge too, and it’s good to be back amongst good friends and waiting projects.<\/p>\n

There’s a blog of the adventures at http:\/\/www.depoint.net\/roadtrip\/. Highlights include hiking in the Alps of Slovenia; getting a personal tour of Ljubljana from someone we met at a 24-hour Burek eatery; discovering Ljubljana’s artsy, squattery alternative scene and staying at their prison-turned-hostel; wandering the grounds of Dachau Concentration Camp; having divine signals lead us to the best food of the trip in Worms; and seeing Cologne’s cathedral and gay town. Here are some images from the journey:
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And I’m back with a change, if a small one. Recently I’d been back-of-my-mind depressed because of my job: I independent contract for two companies that give me an endless stream of interesting work… but work that I can’t believe in as anything but a fun way to make money. And I can’t live to make money or respect myself for it, no matter how fun. But as I sat in the prison-turned-hostel’s Oriental Cafe, I shifted my foreground and background and realized that I was already doing the job I wanted, just not the job I was hired for: I’m starting a business. My business is Departure Point, the traveler’s community site I’ve been working on on-and-off for months. I’ll continue contracting, to support my business until it gets off the ground, but now I have a end that I can believe in.<\/p>\n

In addition, it looks like this semester I’m co-teaching a class on Technology and Culture, and teaching a section of MIT’s intro CS class. Exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m back from roadtripping across Germany. Enormous fun! I love travel. I love Europe. But I love Cambridge too, and it’s good to be back amongst good friends and waiting projects. There’s a blog of the adventures at http:\/\/www.depoint.net\/roadtrip\/. Highlights include hiking in the Alps of Slovenia; getting a personal tour of Ljubljana from someone … Continue reading Back in Cambridge!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}