{"id":65,"date":"2009-07-22T19:25:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T23:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewhuynh.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-12-01T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:02:51","slug":"halfway-through-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/22\/halfway-through-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfway through Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so we&#8217;re halfway through summer. it&#8217;s gone by quickly for me due to a serious job, where i actually have to do work, haha. speaking of which, i&#8217;ve been working with the same client for over a month now. just when i thought i was going to close out my project, i had to pick up someone else&#8217;s slack. frustrating and a little disappointing, but it&#8217;s work to do and experience to be gained. &#8220;no pain, no gain&#8221; is very true&#8230; when i built my first computer, it died every couple of months. in exchange for my pain, i learned a lot about computers. working on this mess of a website, i&#8217;ve learned a lot about web development. my resume should be top-notch by the time i graduate college, haha.<\/p>\n<p>i recently started re-watching <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_(anime)\">Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/a> [with my friend Mathias]. it&#8217;s a pretty good anime, although disturbing. the general consensus is that the anime starts out with a plot, but becomes more and more abstract nearer to the end. you have giant robots fighting giant creatures in the beginning&#8230; by the end of the anime, you got people fighting with their own consciences. i remember watching it when i was younger &#8211; definitely puts some interesting perspectives and ideas into your brain. one such idea is that our identity is split amongst everyone we know. we have a view of ourselves, our ego &#8211; and others have their view of us &#8211; what we look like to them, how we act like to them, etc. i always thought it was interesting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"606\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66 alignnone\" title=\"Neon Genesis Evangelion\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/neon-genesis-evangelion.jpg\" alt=\"Neon Genesis Evangelion\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/neon-genesis-evangelion.jpg 428w, https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/neon-genesis-evangelion-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m looking forward to this weekend &#8211; going on a biking trip with some buddies on saturday. the weather looks nice so it should be a fun and relaxing ride. next weekend is <strong>finally<\/strong> the camping trip. it is one of the biggest events of my summer&#8230; a fun retreat with friends. this year it&#8217;s going to be at Willard Brook State Forest. last year was Harold Parker, i think. next year, probably Myles Standish.<\/p>\n<p>oh right, i got my blackberry tour. of course, you can reach much more indepth reviews online, but overall, the phone is pretty good. it&#8217;s my first blackberry so i don&#8217;t have anything to compare it to. the qwerty keyboard works well &#8211; i type with maybe 1 or 2 mistakes per text message. the phone&#8217;s construction feels solid minus the loose battery cover. the screen is sharp and the OS is alright. they really need to overhaul their included Java-based browser though =\/ it&#8217;s only good for viewing mobile-designed sites. being connected to the internet (i like to call it the cloud) all the time satisfies my addiction pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;re read through this entire post, it must mean you&#8217;re pretty bored or you like reading my shitty writing. speaking of which, my verbal skills (mainly pronounciation) have gone down since i started my internship. i have trouble saying words over 4 syllables for some reason&#8230; it&#8217;s quite pathetic. it must be all the programming. left side of brain versus right side or whatever. oh well, goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so we&#8217;re halfway through summer. it&#8217;s gone by quickly for me due to a serious job, where i actually have to do work, haha. speaking of which, i&#8217;ve been working with the same client for over a month now. just when i thought i was going to close out my project, i had to pick &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/22\/halfway-through-summer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Halfway through Summer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,5,9],"tags":[21,35,36,14],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-ponderings","category-work","tag-blackberry","tag-evangelion","tag-summer","tag-verndale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}