{"id":1216,"date":"2008-05-03T00:29:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T04:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2008-05-03T00:31:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T04:31:43","slug":"early-saturday-morning-gallimaufry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/03\/early-saturday-morning-gallimaufry\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Saturday Morning Gallimaufry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, time to close a few more tabs&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s lovely that the Internet can bring me <a href=\"http:\/\/herestobeer.com\/beer_food\/\">an interactive beer and food matching guide<\/a>. Sadly, it uses a different algorithm than I do&#8211;resulting in far more matches with &#8220;see through&#8221; beer than my scheme would generate.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of beer, I love the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerhaikudaily.com\/\">beer haiku<\/a>. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerhaikudaily.com\/2008\/04\/30\/one-more\/\">favourite<\/a> so far:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>You will never know<br \/>\nIf it is the glass too much<br \/>\nIf you don\u2019t drink it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>That same site brings a round up of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerhaikudaily.com\/2007\/10\/05\/the-session-round-up-beer-and-food\/\">lots of other beer-and-food<\/a> pairing pieces.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s nice to see someone take on the idea that only kids with no extra-work life <a href=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/996-hire-family-people\">can be valuable employees<\/a> in the computer industry.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/viralpolitics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bush_zero-dollar-bill.jpg\">logical conclusion<\/a> to Bush&#8217;s effect on US currency.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, I believe this may actually qualify as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamteabag.com\/2008\/04\/27\/press-play-on-tape-geekiest-band-in-the-world\/\">the geekiest band in the world<\/a>. (As an aside, aren&#8217;t the people who have nostalgic memories of the C-64 now mostly outside of the vaunted 18-35 demographic?)<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s your <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=JVpjIJ8a9cA\">most-likely-to-break-my-brain YouTube of the day<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/sound\/ball.html\">a context link<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>So <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2008\/04\/sorry-absinthe.html\">absinthe doesn&#8217;t make you mad<\/a>, it just makes you really drunk. Fine with me. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/en-passant\/\">Death in the Afternoon<\/a> is still a recipe for&#8230; well for disastrously bad decisions that you don&#8217;t really remember making. And sometimes you need that.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2008\/03\/ammon_shea\/\">Any leucocratic tonalite, esp. one in which the plagioclase is oligoclase.<\/a>&#8221; Yeah, some of those definitions in the OED need some&#8230; well, apparently they need some translation into English. I guess I was wrong about what that E stood for.  (And if you knew what word that definition was for without clicking through, slap yourself. No really. Slap yourself.)<\/li>\n<li>Is it wrong that I find <a href=\"http:\/\/justinelarbalestier.com\/blog\/?p=1136\">the Australia apology song and video<\/a> really rather touching? Well tough, because I do.<\/li>\n<li>I should design a computer language, so I would have <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.microsoft.co.il\/blogs\/tamir\/archive\/2008\/04\/28\/computer-languages-and-facial-hair-take-two.aspx\">an excuse to never shave again<\/a>. I bet I would look cool with a ZZ Top beard.<\/li>\n<li>OK, the idea of residents of Lesbos <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7376919.stm\">suing to make lesbians stop calling themselves lesbians<\/a> cracks me up. I bet there&#8217;s a good number of people on the island also enjoying the ludicrousness.<\/li>\n<li>And no link list would be complete without a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/latestnews\/stories\/050108dnmetbillion.b623795f.html\">a <em>really<\/em> dumb criminal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">And, time to close a few more tabs&#8230; It&#8217;s lovely that the Internet can bring me an interactive beer and food matching guide. Sadly, it uses a different algorithm than I do&#8211;resulting in far more matches with &#8220;see through&#8221; beer than my scheme would generate. Speaking of beer, I love the idea of beer haiku. My favourite so far: You&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/03\/early-saturday-morning-gallimaufry\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[96,75,29,256,59,246,271,459,100],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkapalooza","tag-booze","tag-comedy","tag-computer-industry","tag-crime","tag-currency","tag-drinking","tag-eating","tag-music","tag-poetry","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-jC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}