{"id":242,"date":"2020-03-31T21:51:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2020-03-31T21:53:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:53:56","slug":"chronicles-2020-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/chronicles-2020-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2020 Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The past few months have been wild, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Visited Seattle for a team retreat! We did an escape room as a team and we escaped! It was my first time ever beating an escape room! We did <em>The Vanishing Room<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.locurio.com\/\">Locurio<\/a>.<\/li><li>While in Seattle, I met with some students and faculty at the University of Washington (with one of my Adobe colleagues, <a href=\"https:\/\/hishin.github.io\/\">Valentina<\/a>)! It was quite nostalgic visiting &#8212; I think it was the first time since I had graduated from UW that I had been back during an actual school day. Students were around going about their daily lives and trying not to slip on the icy sidewalks.<\/li><li>I got promoted at work! (Whatever that means! I guess I&#8217;m doing a good job at my job!)<\/li><li>Presented a bit about my current research at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hci.stanford.edu\/\">Stanford HCI Group<\/a>&#8216;s weekly meeting.<\/li><li>CHI 2020 got cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns. But I was a co-author on three papers that was going to appear there! Awesome work by the students and collaborators I worked with.<ul><li>Decipher: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Interpreting Unstructured Design Feedback from Multiple Providers (first author: <a href=\"https:\/\/gracetfg2.github.io\/\">Grace Yen<\/a>)<\/li><li>Temporal Segmentation of Creative Live Streams (first author: <a href=\"https:\/\/cseweb.ucsd.edu\/~cafraser\/\">Ailie Fraser<\/a>) <\/li><li>Generating Audio-Visual Slideshows from Text Articles Using Word Concreteness (first author: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~mleake\/\">Mackenzie Leake<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>The CSCW 2020 paper I had been working on didn&#8217;t get in &#8212; oh well! It&#8217;s a good research idea. I&#8217;ll keep working on it!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Finished this <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/190224040478\/finally-finished-this-amigurumi-project-i-started\">crochet chocobo project<\/a> I started a whole <em>5 years ago<\/em>. <\/li><li>Finished this <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/190817785353\/with-this-cross-stitch-and-the-chocobo-crochet-i\">cute moon phases cross-stitch project<\/a> I started late last year! Cross-stitching is maybe my favorite craft in terms of how the finished products look, but <em>man<\/em> is it slow.<\/li><li>Did an <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/190646503479\/for-once-i-wasnt-on-my-computer-all-day-for-one\">Hourly Comic Day<\/a> comic!<\/li><li>The only thing I&#8217;ve had time to draw this year other than comics was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1218649182036037633\">this diagram of a cat teapot&#8217;s skeleton<\/a>.<\/li><li>Wrote a Tumblr mini-post about<a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/190465859048\/hey-hopefully-you-dont-mind-me-asking-but-ive\"> the approximate budget needed to get started artist alley-ing<\/a>.<\/li><li>Got accepted Fanime 2020&#8217;s Artist Alley! (Although it&#8217;s likely not happening.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>COVID-19!<ul><li>My partner and I have been working from home since the start of March or so. My company decided to close down our Bay Area offices, but I managed to go in to save my office plant before that happened.<\/li><li>Donated some N95 masks to hospitals through <a href=\"https:\/\/getusppe.org\/\">#GetUsPPE<\/a>!<\/li><li>Wrote a blog post on Tumblr about <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/613966533996199936\/how-to-fight-covid-19-geek-edition\">how geeks can help fight COVID-19<\/a>!<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Voted in CA primaries!<\/li><li>Watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3biU0YiYMjQ&amp;list=PLz8YL4HVC87W7kQnumrdXkL40UjhuyoG8\">AGDQ 2020<\/a> and donated where I can! (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sSF9-3KdauA?t=33383\">They read one of my donations on stream, just after the FFVIII run!<\/a>)<ul><li>Probably my favorite run was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Os7FJgK__oE\">this Clone Hero run<\/a>!<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Got tickets to see BTS in Los Angeles! (But the show&#8217;s been postponed.)<ul><li>My favorite Map of the Soul track: Black Swan.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>D&amp;D<ul><li>I ran a short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemon5e.com\/\">Pokemon D&amp;D<\/a> session for a few friends!<\/li><li>FFXIV D&amp;D continues with our small group!<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Anime: The Rising of the Shield Hero (surprised me), My Hero Academia (continuing), Haikyuu (continuing), Gintama (Jirocho Arc)<\/li><li>Games: FFXIV Patch 5.2 (also I finished all the role quests and the little extra story bit they reward with is <em>wild<\/em>), FFVII Remake demo (it looks so good, I&#8217;m so excited), Kentucky Route Zero (beautiful and clever, also I suggested as our &#8220;book&#8221; for the next work book club meeting heh), Bravely Default II Demo (a little disappointing &#8212; UI is hard to look at), Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX (so cute!), War of the Visions: Bravely Default (I can&#8217;t play any more mobile games&#8230; but there&#8217;s a FFXIV event&#8230;), Animal Crossing: New Horizons (this is it. This is the only video game I&#8217;m going to play for the rest of my life.)<ul><li>Pokemon HOME came out! I spent some time transferring Pokemon from my old 3DS games. It is <em>awesome <\/em>being able to wonder trade on my phone!<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Board games: Everdell (really cute and chill)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Books: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (really charming and bittersweet), Delicious Dungeon Vol 1 &#8211; 5 (funny! the art is detailed)<\/li><li>Podcasts:  I got to see Hello From the Magic Tavern live shows in SF and SEA!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The past few months have been wild, y&#8217;all. Academic Visited Seattle for a team retreat! We did an escape room as a team and we escaped! It was my first time ever beating an escape room! We did The Vanishing Room by Locurio. 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