{"id":416,"date":"2009-03-22T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-03-22T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T13:22:00","slug":"416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to wait for whatever imminent news from Oxford before posting&#8211; Flame got hers a week ago (not this year)&#8211; but I suspect that my application got shuffled into the later-applicant pool after a snafu with my transcript.  So, moving on!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back in Cambridge!  It&#8217;s fascinating to see what&#8217;s changed in seven short months, what&#8217;s remained, and what was already history before I left it.  But I&#8217;ve gotten back into the rhythm of the land, quickly enough, and the sweet and salty of it is not much different.<\/p>\n<p>I now have a beautiful apartment, Bluehouse.  It&#8217;s on Highland Ave., a ways after it&#8217;s forgotten its Davis roots, but not far from Porter.  The other residents seem really cool, and the whole place&#8211; from stairway to bathroom&#8211; is filled with art.<\/p>\n<p>I have a new cell phone.  Ask me for the number.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to Burning Man!  I hope to stay with Auto-Sub and help with their preparations!  I have a plan for an art installation, if I can get the equipment together!<\/p>\n<p>Outside of A.I. work (which I adore), my big todos for the season include documenting my Brazil experiences, expanding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelersnetwork.org\/\">Travelers Network<\/a>, authoring an <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/OcwWeb\/web\/home\/home\/index.htm\">O.C.W. course<\/a>, writing on work revolutions, developing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.existencia.org\/forum\/\">Forum Projects<\/a>, and taking a driving class.  And, I&#8217;m building a mailing list for virtual seminars&#8211; information in the next post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to wait for whatever imminent news from Oxford before posting&#8211; Flame got hers a week ago (not this year)&#8211; but I suspect that my application got shuffled into the later-applicant pool after a snafu with my transcript. So, moving on! I&#8217;m back in Cambridge! It&#8217;s fascinating to see what&#8217;s changed in seven short &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/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-416","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\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}