{"id":1092,"date":"2005-10-25T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T11:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2005-10-25T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T11:19:53","slug":"lunchtime-quickies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1092","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime quickies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple of quick things while I wait for the microwave to ding:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Massachusetts is currently being spanked with cold wind and torrential rain.  Not good when you&#8217;re supposed to be leaving on a jet plane.  &#8220;What the hell,&#8221; I growled as I punched up weather.com &#150; and then I saw the culprit: Wilma, wending her witchy way up the coast.  Grrr.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a good thing that I exist right at the nexus of two demographics classically known for being unkempt &#150; the creative type and the MIT geek type &#150; because I am having <i>zero<\/i> luck finding a place to get a trim here in Cambridge.  There are plenty of them, but most of them don&#8217;t have room for walk-ins, and the one that did wanted <i>forty-five bucks<\/i> for a haircut.  Unh uh.  I&#8217;m a grad student, thanks.  Forty-five smackers buys a lot of Taco Bell.<\/li>\n<li>I spent all morning making business cards at Kinko&#8217;s, due to a typo I made in <i>my own design<\/i> for the Convergence Culture Consortium cards.  Last week I made business cards for five of us, and I spent so much time and energy on making sure that nobody else&#8217;s cards had any errors that I completely forgot to proofread my own.  D&#8217;oh!  The shoemaker&#8217;s son truly does go barefoot.  Anyway, the moral of this story is <i>be nice to the poor guys who work at Kinko&#8217;s<\/i> &#150; it <i>really does<\/i> take a long time to make your business cards on the spot, since what <i>seems<\/i> like an easy series of cuts actually translates into <i>tons and tons of work.<\/i>  Trust me.  Voice of experience.<\/li>\n<li>The Tohubohu gang pulled it off again &#150; I can&#8217;t wait to see the finished product, a short called &#8220;Homemade Hero&#8221;.  Way to go, gang!<\/li>\n<li>Mercifully, all my friends in Florida have emerged out the other side of <i>another<\/i> hurricane relatively unscathed.  For a great story (with pictures!) check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidseitzinger.com\/photojournal.html\">David Seitzinger&#8217;s weblog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Weather like this is <i>made<\/i> for soup.  And that was the microwave dinging.  Lunch is served.  \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple of quick things while I wait for the microwave to ding: Massachusetts is currently being spanked with cold wind and torrential rain. Not good when you&#8217;re supposed to be leaving on a jet plane. &#8220;What the hell,&#8221; I growled as I punched up weather.com &#150; and then I saw the culprit: Wilma, wending her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-hC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}