interview, falling stars, gaming party, work stuff

My interview on monday went pretty well. I think there was pretty good communication going on, and I did my best to project confidence in my ability for the task. May also have included some arrogance and impatience along with the confidence. I’m one of 5 candidates. Should hear back next week (note: while I’m out of town).

That evening I watched the Leonid meteor shower with some clinic types, and a friend of a clinic type. It was pretty, and cold. We were on a hill in the middle of some farmer’s pasture, near Mount Diablo, huddling on someone else’s blanket and under mine. This would be the second incident of trespassing I’ve performed with clinic type people. Probably saw about 40-60 meteors over the course of 2-3 hours. It was cool.

Then last night, gaming party at my place with Simon, , , and Ro. Played a game of transamerica, which was pretty cool. And then go with Josh while everyone else played settlers. I sucked it in the go game. Partially I failed to compensate for the scale difference between a 13×13, and partially my tactics blew. I think I need more practice in general. Oh well. Then a game of settlers. Settlers is a great party game because it’s social. You’re encouraged to interact with other players in the free form arena of trading. This naturally leads to trash talking, which only serves to make the game more fun.

Work report. It seems that I was correct when I intuitively said that a point observer with linear motion cannot uniquely determine the location or motion of a point target of linear motion, even given that the motion is linear. I’d back tracked later, thinking there was insufficient evidence, but I was right the first time. There was also the question of whether “phi” is pronounced ‘fee’ or ‘fie’. I say ‘fie’. Ro says ‘fee’. We compromised by saying ‘fff’, but I dropped the compromise. When brought up at the gaming party, ‘fee’ was more popular. I want the opinion of a greek speaker (not that I’m going to actually _change_ my speech patterns, mind)