{"id":287,"date":"2007-08-23T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2007-08-23T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T01:57:00","slug":"the-daily-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mountains have erupted, oceans dried, and rodent-like pincushions floated away since last I posted.  I got back from Pennsic a week ago, and I&#8217;m leaving for Burning Man a week hence (just bought tickets!!!).  There is too much; let me sum up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I got a contract gig at Harmonix, makers of Guitar Hero, doing cool speech- and audio-analysis for their new game, which looks *really* cool.  If you&#8217;re into that sort of thing.  I&#8217;m working on-site, surrounded by some of most competent coders I&#8217;ve had the pleasure to work with, fed dinner nightly, and inundated with all the IBC soda I can eat.  It&#8217;s a really nice break from my normal free-wheeling lifestyle.\n<li>I scrambled to put my swan ride and ugly duckling tunic (among other fowl things) in a row for Pennsic the week before leaving.  Good times.\n<li>Pennsic was glorious, and I fell in love with the SCA for the dozenth time.  I had expected to tag on <lj user=\"girlygothic\" \/>&#8216;s toga tails, but got so caught up in my own camp and dancing the week away that I only got to two big parties (Men without Pants and Ladies Night).\n<li>I wrangled plans so I could attend the birthday party and vegetarian potluck of two of my most luscious and provocative friends, <lj user=\"jdub0014\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/andelsky.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">andelsky<\/a>.  The associated Rocky after-party was perfect, the potluck was delicious, and the party sequel was the best time I&#8217;ve had in months.\n<li>Since returning, I&#8217;ve been busy with friends about every night, with plenty more people to get together with on my todo list.  Around the edges, I practiced my Napoleon Dynamite dance trixie (I didn&#8217;t perform it as well as I practiced it, but it was fun learning the dance), and the Crim role.\n<li>Now I&#8217;m scrambling to find my marbles for Burning Man.<\/ul>\n<p>I have some great musings to post, but I need to back at work at the crack of 10, and the traffic those four blocks can be grueling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountains have erupted, oceans dried, and rodent-like pincushions floated away since last I posted. I got back from Pennsic a week ago, and I&#8217;m leaving for Burning Man a week hence (just bought tickets!!!). There is too much; let me sum up. I got a contract gig at Harmonix, makers of Guitar Hero, doing cool &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=287\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Daily Special<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-287","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\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}