{"id":686,"date":"2006-09-28T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T13:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/28\/thursday-morning-linkage\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T09:01:40","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T13:01:40","slug":"thursday-morning-linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/28\/thursday-morning-linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday morning linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What was I saying about <a href=\"http:\/\/content.ytmnd.com\/content\/a\/2\/2\/a224551a525ebf5e30cedf1f4ae16b99.gif\">misusing the power of education<\/a>? Man would I have done poorly at that school.<\/li>\n<li>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/features.cgsociety.org\/gallerycrits\/199846\/199846_1156997804_large.jpg\">computer-generated image<\/a>. I would have been fooled. Is there a Turing test equivalent for this kind of thing?<\/li>\n<li>The idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Statler_and_Waldorf\">Statler &#038; Waldorf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.go.com\/muppets\/archive\">doing a Siskel and Ebert routine<\/a> is pretty solid gold. Somehow they manage to blow it, though. Maybe it&#8217;s the commercials, maybe it&#8217;s that the voices are not even close, maybe that they aren&#8217;t crusty enough, maybe that they don&#8217;t even really review the films, just use them as takeoffs for not-so-funny gags&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Am I the only person in the world who didn&#8217;t know that F2 was the shortcut for rename in Explorer? Man, the amount of right-click\/scroll\/select time I could have saved&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Am I also the only person in the world who didn&#8217;t know that when you get one of those &#8216;Yes&#8217;\/&#8217;Yes To All&#8217;\/&#8217;No&#8217; dialogues, and what you really want is to say &#8216;No To All&#8217; that you can do that by holding down SHIFT and hitting the &#8216;No&#8217; option? With just those two things the number of times I shift to the CLI is going to drop by about 50%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">What was I saying about misusing the power of education? Man would I have done poorly at that school. This is a computer-generated image. I would have been fooled. Is there a Turing test equivalent for this kind of thing? The idea of Statler &#038; Waldorf doing a Siskel and Ebert routine is pretty solid gold. Somehow they manage to&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/28\/thursday-morning-linkage\/\">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":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkapalooza","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-b4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}