{"id":2569,"date":"2009-05-27T03:31:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2009-05-27T03:31:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T07:31:09","slug":"a-what-day-is-it-anyway-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/a-what-day-is-it-anyway-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"A What-Day-Is-It-Anyway Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have now been on vacation long enough that I don&#8217;t remember what day it is. I think &#8220;if it&#8217;s Wednesday it must be San Francisco&#8221; logic may apply.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, here&#8217;s a list of a few things that caught my eye during my little bits of hotel-room surfing after the child goes to bed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pirate_Bay_trial\">The Pirate Bay trial<\/a>, and aftermath, has been keeping me amused for a while. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pirate_Bay_trial#Bias_allegations\">The reveal that the presiding judge was a member of several copyright-protection groups<\/a> was very entertaining, but the subsequent reveal that the judge assigned to check the first judge for bias <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/05\/judge-reviewing-pirate-bay-trial-bias-is-removed-for-bias\/\">had to be removed<\/a> for&#8230; wait for it&#8230; bias, has my howling with laughter on the inside. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topshelfcomix.com\/catalog.php?type=12&#038;title=416\">The Surrogates<\/a> was a decent comic from Top Shelf a while back&#8211;I enjoyed it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailerspy.com\/trailer\/4109\/Surrogates-Trailer-HD\">The trailer for the movie version<\/a> makes me think the movie could also be quite good. I promise to try to evaluate the movie on its own merits and without reference to the comic, but I expect to fail.<\/li>\n<li>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/am-i-getting-more-childish\/\">still-suprising-me<\/a> amusement with Cracked.com continues with their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_17366_7-wtf-military-weapons-you-wont-believe-they-actually-built.html\">7 WTF Military Weapons You Won&#8217;t Believe They Actually Built<\/a> piece. As an aside, I was somewhat disturbed to find a basis in fact for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertweinberg.net\/gifs\/bookcovers\/bh56-big.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\">Nazi War Wheel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I am officially getting Really Fucking Tired of that special mocking irony. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/21\/AR2009052104472.html?hpid=topnews\">You know who you are<\/a>. Some thing are So Bad They&#8217;re Good, and some things are just rubbish.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure who I want to show the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/loganmills\/sets\/72157617640418633\/\">Wu Note Project<\/a> images to. I&#8217;ve got friends who know the Wu, and friends who would know what was being referenced, but I&#8217;m not sure those Venn diagrams overlap. Still, if you get it, it&#8217;s a lovely thing.<\/li>\n<li>Back in the day when my <em>guardo camino<\/em> and I decided to grab a flick our personal slang distinguished two basic categories of movies, depending on what state we were in. We either wanted to get a &#8220;thinker&#8221;&#8211;which basically meant any movie that featured quality writing and acting&#8211;or we wanted to get &#8220;something with explosions and boobs&#8221;, which category should be self-explanatory. It appears the internet has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explosionsandboobs.com\/\">made that second category more efficient<\/a>, removing the need for the movie infrastructure, and just reducing things to the real lowest common denominator. Men are so simple.<\/li>\n<li>Yet another reason to be proud of Wisconsin: deny your kid necessary medical attention in favour of waiting for divine intervention&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/sns-ap-us-prayer-death,0,2685142.story\">GO TO JAIL<\/a>. &#8217;nuff said.<\/li>\n<li>Attention all those who think the private sector, and competition automatically results in better service and lower prices: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/calgary\/features\/beer\/index.html\">Beer costs more in all-private-all-the-time Alberta than it does in monpoly-government-vendor Ontario<\/a>. Just saying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I have now been on vacation long enough that I don&#8217;t remember what day it is. I think &#8220;if it&#8217;s Wednesday it must be San Francisco&#8221; logic may apply. With that in mind, here&#8217;s a list of a few things that caught my eye during my little bits of hotel-room surfing after the child goes to bed: The Pirate Bay&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/a-what-day-is-it-anyway-miscellany\/\">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":[1],"tags":[109,96,75,31,265,237,45,392,106,363,393,107,330,22,241],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-adaptations","tag-booze","tag-comedy","tag-comics","tag-economics","tag-fashion","tag-filesharing","tag-irony","tag-law","tag-pictures","tag-puerile","tag-religion","tag-secret-history","tag-torrent","tag-war","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Fr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","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=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}