{"id":361,"date":"2003-04-23T22:30:04","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=361"},"modified":"2003-04-23T22:30:04","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T02:30:04","slug":"the-day-i-turned-uncool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/23\/the-day-i-turned-uncool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day I Turned Uncool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finished &#8220;<i>The Day I Turned Uncool<\/i>&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzevin.com\/books\/uncool.html\">official site<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812967224\/cephasnet-20\/\">amazon<\/a>]by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzevin.com\/\">Dan Zevin<\/a> last night.  Dan is from Jersey, now resides in Cambridge.  192 pages of fun.  Read it if you&#8217;re starting to realize you&#8217;re not 21 anymore.  <\/p>\n<p>On another (completely and totally unrelated) note, I started reading &#8220;<i>Ghandi&#8217;s Truth: On The Origins Of Militant Nonviolence<\/i>&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393310345\/cephasnet-20\/\">amazon<\/a>] tonight, a book by Erik Erikson (a resident of Stockbridge here in MA for a time).  It is described aptly in an Amazon review as <i>&#8220;&#8230;an introduction to the challenges of poverty, religious difference, and ethnic tensions we all must accept and try to deal with as we head into the everchanging 21st century.<\/i>&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>All this and I&#8217;m cognizant of Geoff&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.daemon.com.au\/archives\/000136.html#000136\">post<\/a> a couple days ago about Goog and off-topic posts.  I really enjoy reading Goog and I think it&#8217;s a great tool (one obviously not written in a short weekend). I was not one of the people who emailed him complaining that there were too many posts not related to MX technology.  With that said, I think that Goog&#8217;s primary benefit is not that I can see what things other people are doing with MX technology&#8230; Go subscribe to an email list if you want announcements, bug fixes and people talking about the nuances of the &#8216;this&#8217; scope versus the variables scope or go get yourself a <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\">RSS reader<\/a> and compile your own list of interesting blogs.  I for one enjoy pseudo off-topic posts.  Anywho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished &#8220;The Day I Turned Uncool&#8221; [official site] [amazon]by Dan Zevin last night. Dan is from Jersey, now resides in Cambridge. 192 pages of fun. Read it if you&#8217;re starting to realize you&#8217;re not 21 anymore. On another (completely and totally unrelated) note, I started reading &#8220;Ghandi&#8217;s Truth: On The Origins Of Militant Nonviolence&#8221; [amazon] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/23\/the-day-i-turned-uncool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Day I Turned Uncool<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}