{"id":116,"date":"2014-02-17T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2014-05-25T06:31:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T23:31:22","slug":"what-ive-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/what-ive-been-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve been up to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still alive and I&#8217;m realizing how hard this blog thing can be. \u00a0It&#8217;s easy to forget you have to update it and then the rest of your life carries you along. \u00a0I have had plenty of times where I thought to myself I could write this up and post it, but then whoosh I&#8217;m moving on somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested, and as a record of how I&#8217;m filling my time, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been up to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD coursework and research at the University of Minnesota. \u00a0I&#8217;m in my second year, and it eats up a lot of my time.<\/li>\n<li>My research is getting pretty exciting, I sent in a paper to SIGGRAPH over the winter so fingers crossed there.<\/li>\n<li>In my spare time I still work on my graphics engine and I&#8217;ve been pursuing some related work in functional shader languages that should really help move it forward.<\/li>\n<li>I volunteer at a high school for their FIRST robotics program and we&#8217;re almost done with the build for this years competition.<\/li>\n<li>and then there&#8217;s all the other healthy balanced life style things like gym, parents, friends, girl friend, and League of Legends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But rest assured (and 90% of this is reminding my brain of my commitments), I am alive and I have this blog and posts will be made and programming will be done and then written about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still alive and I&#8217;m realizing how hard this blog thing can be. \u00a0It&#8217;s easy to forget you have to update it and then the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhkbob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}