Funemployment

[gwillen]

I guess I ought to make a PSA here: I am officially funemployed! By which I mean, I have departed from Google (of my own free will), and do not currently have anything else to replace it with. (Don't tell my grandmother. She'll kill me.) I'm planning to take a few months off, and then move out to the SF bay area around the time my lease expires in August.

While I'm funemployed, I'm going to post daily updates to LJ on what I'm getting up to with my life, so you can all help keep me on track and doing useful things. ;-) If you are interested in reading said updates, please comment so I can put you on the filter. But be warned; they may at times be deadly boring, or incomprehensible, or both. (The first two, for yesterday and today, will be about Bitcoins, hardware, and Cirque du Soleil.)

Comments

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

 

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

 

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tove/]

Fair is fair; add me to your filter. :P

[(Anonymous)]

Is it possible to publish an RSS feeds of these updates for those of us who don't LiveJournal?
(I'm already subed to your main LJ feed if you can make them so up there)
-azana

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I don't think you can RSS feed private posts. :-\ I could make a separate feed, but that would require Some Engineering....

[wjl.livejournal.com]

I need up-to-the-minute information on the where-, when-, and why-abouts of gwillen! Please keep me in the loop -- i am well-practiced at the art of skipping anything deadly boring, incomprehensible, or both on my LJ friends page ;)

[blk]

this!

[ikeepaleopard]

Interested! Especially if you start an interesting project.

[letters-in-sand.livejournal.com]

I'm interested!

[physics-dude.livejournal.com]

Yeah sure; why'd you leave Google??

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

After four years, got tired of it. Plus the IP assignment agreement was starting to annoy the shit out of me. (That is the clause that says "all your personal projects are belong to us, if they relate to smartphone apps, or webapps, or applications of any kind, or the internet, or computers, or anything with more transistors in it than a rock.")

[invlwhen.livejournal.com]

Interested.

[joshua0]

1) Interested

2) You should buy an FPGA board and play with it during your time between jobs

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Hmmm that is a cool idea. All I know about them is what I learned in 240. How cheaply can I get one?

[roseandsigil.livejournal.com]

Me!

[dr4b]

Interested, and also, when you get out to the west coast let me know since I'll be hopping between SF and Seattle for the summer!

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Ooh okay, will do! I will def. consult with you about dates before planning any seattle trips.

[lindseykuper]

Interested, newsletter, etc. Congratulations on making the leap to funemployment!

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

[alanv]

Filter :D

[lorimt]

Pick me!

[zacharyzsparks.livejournal.com]

I am curious! Add me! And we should hang out more this summer.

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Trufax! Keep me posted on your doings. (Typo: dongs.)

[jcreed.livejournal.com]

Intrigued. Newsletter. Subscribe.

[jcreed.livejournal.com]

oh wait lindseykuper already made that joke oops

[quartzpebble.livejournal.com]

Signing up!

[lordspaz.livejournal.com]

/subscribe

[xsavvyx.livejournal.com]

Me

[gregh1983]

Whoo, some people using LiveJournal again! I'd be happy to stay on your daily-doin's list.

[dachte.livejournal.com]

CONNECT 300

[cmouse.livejournal.com]

I'm in! And congrats!

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

Can you add me to a filter?

[selfification (from livejournal.com)]

I follow you... but through reader and have commented here using my twitter id. I don't remember enough about LJ to know if I can continue following you.

Re: Can you add me to a filter?

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, I don't know either. I will add you to the filter but I have no idea whether that will work.

[etotheipi.livejournal.com]

Woo funemployment! I wanna read!

[platypuslord.livejournal.com]

I'm interested.