{"id":1718,"date":"2008-12-08T08:34:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T08:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2008-12-08T08:34:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T08:34:55","slug":"sg0801-the-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1718","title":{"rendered":"SG0801: The kickoff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nQT_WritePoster_XHTML('Click to Play', 'http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/images\/journal\/singapore_01-poster.jpg',\n'http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/images\/journal\/singapore_01.mov',\n'550', '428', '',\n'controller', 'true',\n'autoplay', 'true',\n'bgcolor', 'black',\n'scale', 'aspect');\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n<object width=\"550\" height=\"428\" classid=\"clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B\" codebase=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/qtactivex\/qtplugin.cab\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/images\/journal\/singapore_01-poster.jpg\" \/><param name=\"href\" value=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/images\/journal\/singapore_01.mov\" \/><param name=\"target\" value=\"myself\" \/><param name=\"controller\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"autoplay\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"aspect\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>A little context: I turned 31 on Saturday, at which point I promptly fled to country for Singapore.  <i>America is a country for the young,<\/i> I decided.  <i>I will therefore leave it to its starlets and its High School Musicals.<\/i><br \/>\nNo, actually I&#8217;m in Singapore to help shill for GAMBIT at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/asia2008\/\">SIGGRAPH Asia 2008<\/a>, where I&#8217;ll be hanging out at the GAMBIT booth and telling people about the wonderous amounts of fun and hijinks that are to be had in our summer program.  I&#8217;m <i>also<\/i> here to just get a sense of the place, which should be a huge help for my job in general.  It was decidedly weird to go from celebrating 31 with Laura and my parents in Boston to jump on a plane and fly literally halfway around the world, but I have friends here that I&#8217;m hoping to meet up with ASAP so they can show me around.<br \/>\nOne thing I&#8217;ve decided to try out, though, is using the video function of my Canon Elph SD890IS to videoblog this excursion.  So far I&#8217;m finding out it has a sort of crappy microphone, but that&#8217;s not that surprising.  The video above was grabbed while waiting for the plane from Boston to London to take off, and I&#8217;ll upload some more travel videos momentarily.  Tomorrow: tourism!<br \/>\nWish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little context: I turned 31 on Saturday, at which point I promptly fled to country for Singapore. America is a country for the young, I decided. I will therefore leave it to its starlets and its High School Musicals. No, actually I&#8217;m in Singapore to help shill for GAMBIT at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,42,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit","category-travel","category-video-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-rI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}