- Dropped off, picked up (early), dropped off. We had a talk about avoiding getting obsessed with things. (Poppets are the guy's current obsession, and he kept asking to hold the poppets during our walk.) He brought up the Fox and the Grapes, and I mentioned Lord of the Rings. Having read those stories made the concept of obsession much easier for him to understand!
- Rescheduled an interview for a contracting gig when I realized that school had an early release day and that I'd have to pick up during that time. I freaked out a little about making this mistake, but later I realize why this is totally not worth freaking out about.
- Logged more intermediate signals from the pd and Juce version of the vocoder. In the "adding squared rfft outputs" step, the pd version yields some apparent infinity values along with negatives, while the Juce version has all positives.
- Added another riff to a song but decided it doesn't really go. Moved it to a new song.
- Gathered a bunch of kids books that we've probably outgrown to give away. My getting rid of an object a day initiative is going OK so far!
- Did the interview. The interviewer was really stiff. He was obviously following a script, which is fine, but he seemed put off by questions, even though he was obligated to say, no, go ahead, ask your question. (I only had 2-3.)
- One of the cofounders of this company worked on the first "ranked for engagement" News Feed in Facebook. I'm guessing they're not ashamed of that. I also said I left my last job for ethical reasons, which probably did not excite him.
- I wonder if there was some miscommunication because it sounded like they wanted someone good with Go, and I explained that that wasn't me.
- He asked how I wanted my career to go, and I explained that I ultimately wanted to work in audio DSP and that's why I'm going for this part-time job. Then, he asked what I wanted out of this part-time job. I should have just said money because, honestly, why else would I do this?
- Later, they emailed and said they're passing because of timing, which is fine.
- That does mean that both of my contracting chances may have fizzled out. (I haven't heard back about my more specific scope proposal on the other thing.) I may have to move on to Plan C, which is to get the same kind of job I had before.
- Made dinner.
- Wrote the D&D recap for the game from two weeks ago and set up another COVID survey. It's not my greatest work, but it's still better than no recap at all.
- Wrote an email to a friend.