- Voted. The election commissioner was late to unlock the dropbox. Someone crammed their ballot in the locked slot so that it was sticking out. The election commissioner came by and grabbed it and unlocked the slot just as I got there.
- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.
- Applied to a couple of part-time jobs. (No further word from the client that said my contract looked fine, and they'd run it by their bosses for approval.)
- Got groceries.
- Realized that when I get FFT snapshots from the Pure Data side, I'm taking them at arbitrary times, so they are snapshots of arbitrary blocks. Snapshots of different blocks in this signal are often similar to each other, but they're not the same. On the Juce side, I'm logging every single block, so I'm surprised the log is actually readable. (It's net bad that it is because it's deceptive.)
- Implemented a block counter on the Pure Data side. This is set up for being able to take snapshots of specific blocks so that the comparison to the snapshots of the same specific blocks on the Juce side can be more valid.
- Fixed the remaining encapsulation leaks in my Pure Data homework patch. Making a ticker without send/receive/value was surprisingly tricky.
- Objects removed from house today: old warped doormat, prescription keratoconazole shampoo that expired last year.
- Read some Piketty.
- Interviewed with one of the part-time jobs I applied to. It was only fifteen minutes. It went well and also they might not need to check contractors out that hard because they can just fire them at any time. It seems legit? Someone else from Recurse is currently working with them and getting paid.
- Went to the contractors' roundtable. Heard quite a bit of interesting real talk, and one of the participants got everyone to speak in actual numbers about their rates, which helped everyone. Also learned a lot about negotiating with clients and (in some points of view) their two main drivers: fear of the job getting screwed up and their desire to feel like they got a good deal.
- Made dinner.
- Filled out an NDA and confidentiality agreement, the hardest part of which was going through Observatory to pick out any of my "inventions" that might possibly fall into that company's domain. Also consented to a criminal background check, but at least did not consent to waiving rights to a class action suit against the criminal background check company. I stood a tiny bit of ground there.