{"id":6560,"date":"2023-04-01T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T04:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2023-04-01T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T04:25:10","slug":"fifty-five-minus-thirty-six-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/01\/fifty-five-minus-thirty-six-back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"[fifty-five] minus thirty-six: back to work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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break that fast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

No, I’m not giving up on blogging at a rate of once per day this year, even if I am already roughly forty percent behind. But my top focus now that I’m outside the Google firewall<\/a> is to get back to work: after two and a half months of uncertainty following my layoff from Google<\/a>, the paperwork is now done: the End Date has passed, the Severance is signed, the laptops have been shipped back to the office, and, excepting a bit of COBRA \/ IRA business, I be done with all that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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sending back the laptops in their special return box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But my research isn’t done. Coincidentally, I had a few scientific papers-in-flight going when the layoffs happened; not coincidentally, I dove in to making sure those went out. One is under review, with a possibility that we may need to open-source the code, but another has already been published, at the Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction in Academia and Industry<\/a>. This is a “splinter paper,” a small topical paper we forked out of a larger journal article in preparation, and that journal paper needs to go out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor is my work done. Today is Camp Nano, the start of yet another 50,000 word challenge, and I hope to finish the novel-in-progress, JEREMIAH WILLSTONE AND THE PLAGUE OF GEARS, which my friend Tony Sarrecchia<\/a> is helping me adapt into a series of audio dramas. And I need to finish editing Dakota Frost #4, SPECTRAL IRON, at which I recently made a lot of progress solving plot problems – and for which I recently conducted a research trip to Jack Kerouac Avenue to scope out the site of a battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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jack kerouac attack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That doesn’t even count the game artificial intelligence work I want to do, or the games I want to write, or the drawing I want to do, or my new interest in music, or the regular robotics research I want to get started under the Logical Robotics<\/a> banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My point is, “work” for “the man” should not define you. At least, it doesn’t define me: it inspired me, definitely, in many ways, but as for now … I’m tanked up with my own projects, thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: Breakfast of the First Day of the New Era, sending back the laptops, Jack Kerouac Alley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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