{"id":1065,"date":"2002-07-07T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-07T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2002-07-07T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-07T07:03:00","slug":"wow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/wow-2","title":{"rendered":"Wow.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do I have friends, but a suprising number of my friends also use the livejournal system. I should figure out what percentage of them are paying users &#8211; would be funny if LiveJournal had trouble running as a nonprofit because it kept making too much money.<\/p>\n<p>My &#8216;friends&#8217; page <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Ran into someone on the net today who told me that I was someone named &#8216;Mark&#8217; in my past life who died in Berkeley, CA of a drug overdose in 1970. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, I think i&#8217;ll just cut &#038; paste the commentary. Names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>X tells you &#8216;Yes.  But your name was Mark, and you died of a drug<br \/>\n   overdose in 1970 in Berkley, CA.&#8217;<br \/>\nX tells you &#8216;And you&#8217;re the reincarnation of him.&#8217;<br \/>\nX tells you &#8216;Hope that doesn&#8217;t ruin your day.&#8217;<br \/>\n  You emote &#8216;Sheer chuckles. Not at all. But I would like to hear more..&#8217; to<br \/>\n   X<br \/>\n->  You tell X &#8216;Actually, dying from a drug overdose in berkeley doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\n   sound like a bad way to go.. I&#8217;m guessing it wasn&#8217;t acid, though, that<br \/>\n   usually doesn&#8217;t kill you. And I won&#8217;t touch the hard stuff..&#8217;<br \/>\n-> X tells you &#8216;Oh sure &#8211; you loved Sugar Crisp cereal, and you<br \/>\n   kinda liked math and sci-fi cartoons, and after Sputnik you decided to go<br \/>\n   into engineering.  You also told your friends in college that you&#8217;d commit<br \/>\n   suicide rather than go into the military if you were drafted.&#8217;<br \/>\nX tells you &#8216;Your dad was a high school science teacher, and your mom<br \/>\n   was a nurse.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Now, what&#8217;s strange about this is that this person did not know me, approached me completely out of the blue and volunteered this information. I am, of course, inclined to take it with a grain or six of salt.. but.. still, it&#8217;s interesting. Probably just because I can see myself loving suger crisps and commiting suicide rather than going to shoot at innocent people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the people who played &#8216;Born in the USA&#8217; and &#8216;Keep on rocking in the free world&#8217; for our 4th of July gathering of 20,000 people at the park realized that they were playing protest songs. I have to assume they did.. which I find very encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>I keep making progress on the mk3 software in fits and starts. It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s a horribly complex problem &#8211; it&#8217;s just that there are so many little nitpicking peices involved. Today I wrote a more advanced serial debugger for the &#8216;wedge&#8217;, one that will let me look up variables and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>I also had a interesting idea last night.. instead of making a hard disk recording system that&#8217;s one big mondo computer, maybe we should try making one out of a network of microcontrollers..<\/p>\n<p>but then, I always wanted stereo equipment to plug togeather with ethernet. Would be sooo much easier to deal with, you could have infinate inputs, outputs, and routings..<\/p>\n<p>Ah well. <\/p>\n<p>Shouts out to my newest reader! Thanks for joining, we&#8217;ll try not to bore you too much, but I am, let&#8217;s face it, a pretty boring person. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do I have friends, but a suprising number of my friends also use the livejournal system. I should figure out what percentage of them are paying users &#8211; would be funny if LiveJournal had trouble running as a nonprofit because it kept making too much money. My &#8216;friends&#8217; page &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Ran into someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}