{"id":2602,"date":"2009-01-17T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generoseberry.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2009-01-17T08:45:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T15:45:12","slug":"my-internet-is-so-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"My internet is so slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Personal<\/strong>: I&#8217;ve implemented a new comment system.\u00a0 It should be all fancy and stuff.\u00a0 I primarily did it so you guys could comment using your facebook as a login as opposed to registering for something new.\u00a0 Hope ya&#8217;ll enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theskepticsguide.org\/sgublog\/?p=418\">This is cool<\/a>.\u00a0 Just so you know, generally advances don&#8217;t come in 8 orders of magnitude steps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong>: Obama has a digg type system for making policy recommendations.\u00a0 People can submit proposals, and vote on them, the most highly rated ones will be given in some big book to the President for consideration.\u00a0 Who knows what that means but I voted up <a href=\"http:\/\/citizensbriefingbook.change.gov\/ideas\/viewIdea.apexp?id=087800000004y2f&amp;srPos=3&amp;srKp=087\">this proposal<\/a> because it&#8217;s a good pro science anti nonsense proposal.\u00a0 You should vote it up, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charity<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/freerice.com\/index.php\">Freerice<\/a> is onto my little game and has reduced the rice reward for answering questions with fewer options.\u00a0 So, now I&#8217;m down to my old rate of donation again.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entertainmen<\/strong>t: I listened to all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenfry.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/podgrams\/\">Stephen Fry<\/a> podgrams.\u00a0 He&#8217;s got quite the vocal and rhetorical skill.\u00a0 I think he pretty much played himself in V for Vendetta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fitness<\/strong>: I have been on push-up hiatus due to a mysterious abdominal injury.\u00a0 It seems to have healed now, though.\u00a0 So today I did push-ups on my new swivel devices.\u00a0 They make things significantly more difficult.\u00a0 They, combined with degradation from my inactivity, take my count down to 40.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m starting.\u00a0 I plan to attempt to climb back up to 100 in 2 months.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how feasible that pace is with these contraptions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: I&#8217;ve stayed up to see the sunrise.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really not my fault.\u00a0 The internet was so slow as to necessitate it.\u00a0 If any of you Central people read this it&#8217;s ok to bang on my door around 1:30 if you want.\u00a0 Extra sleep won&#8217;t kill me, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal: I&#8217;ve implemented a new comment system.\u00a0 It should be all fancy and stuff.\u00a0 I primarily did it so you guys could comment using your facebook as a login as opposed to registering for something new.\u00a0 Hope ya&#8217;ll enjoy it. Science: This is cool.\u00a0 Just so you know, generally advances don&#8217;t come in 8 orders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,4],"tags":[119,112,118,97,113],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-things-ive-learned","category-update","tag-cam","tag-freerice","tag-obama","tag-science","tag-stephen-fry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}