{"id":10463,"date":"2010-06-28T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/27\/washington-drives\/"},"modified":"2010-06-26T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T09:08:39","slug":"washington-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/28\/washington-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My work place everyday is actually in a large common lounge area in MIT\u2019s Media Lab. While I do have an office space in the research center, I actually enjoy working in a common area. There\u2019s a scenic view of MIT and Charles River, great morning and afternoon lighting \u2013 and best of all, a very large 60 inch LED TV that MIT staff occasionally come by to watch segments of the key matches of the World Cup now. I&#8217;m not really following the world cup this time round myself, but it&#8217;s still fun to soak in the atmosphere when the staff come out to watch.<\/p>\n<p>A view of the lounge; yep I sit on the carpeted floor when I work (panorama composition):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-Pana47\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blogPana47.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-Pana47\" width=\"600\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My view of MIT (panorama composition):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-pana06-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blogpana06flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-pana06-flickr\" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what I mean.:)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-OLYP1860-MIT-MediaLab\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonOLYP1860MITMediaLab.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-OLYP1860-MIT-MediaLab\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a hilarious commercial running on TV just now too. I\u2019m not gonna say much about it, but watch it!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ezk0e1VL80o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zLa6NGduJ_c&amp;feature=channel\">making-of feature<\/a> of too that talks about how this very innovative commercial was made.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work place everyday is actually in a large common lounge area in MIT\u2019s Media Lab. While I do have an office space in the research center, I actually enjoy working in a common area. There\u2019s a scenic view of<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/28\/washington-drives\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Washington Drives<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[469,137,468],"class_list":["post-10463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling","tag-boston-2010","tag-d300","tag-e-pl1","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}