{"id":1667,"date":"2007-08-29T20:30:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/busy_bee_1\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:40:01","slug":"busy_bee_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/busy_bee_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Progress on my dissertation<\/strong> has been an uphill battle against two very demanding design projects I\u2019ve been plowing through at the same time. One, thankfully, is on its way to turning out very well after a few hiccups on press preceded by lots and lots and lots of passionate input from the authors\/clients. It\u2019s been a lot of work, but the end result is very exciting for us all. (I hope. Oh god, I hope we\u2019re all equally excited at this point.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/matd_specimen_sparky.jpg\" alt=\"The MATD Group Specimen is underway\" width=\"100%\" height=\"558\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other is a horrorshow of trying to polish a turd for a client who doesn\u2019t quite know what they want, can\u2019t quite agree about what they&#8217;re trying to do, wouldn\u2019t give me any time to help them figure it out, and has reduced the budget to just about a bag of peanuts and a glass of tap water. But I care, so I can\u2019t just let myself blow them off.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there\u2019s still a ways to go on my acutely insightful analysis of typefaces for mathematics that I need to finish so I can graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress on my dissertation has been an uphill battle against two very demanding design projects I\u2019ve been plowing through at the same time. One, thankfully, is on its way to turning out very well after a few hiccups on press preceded by lots and lots and lots of passionate input from the authors\/clients. It\u2019s been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/busy_bee_1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Busy Bee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal","category-ultraphotographic","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76948,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/76948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}