{"id":222,"date":"1999-11-12T12:18:51","date_gmt":"1999-11-12T11:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/1999\/11\/friday-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:27:06","slug":"friday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/1999\/11\/12\/friday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a slow day at lectures, I decide to retire to the computer room to waste a couple of hours. I contemplate writing a [guide][] entry on Tchaikovsky, but abort my efforts after not knowing how to start it. The cursor just flashes at me, seemingly saying &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to help you with this one.&#8221; If only after a few minutes of inactivity the computer could sense that you were having a mental block, and offer advice and suggestions. Like a little window popping up saying &#8220;How&#8217;s about you go and have a cup of coffee and I will write this for you?&#8221; That&#8217;s what I envisage when people talk about computers making your life easier.<\/p>\n<p>Two blonde girls walk into the computer room. Two IDENTICAL blonde girls. Makes you wonder how two people can look so much like eachother. And it&#8217;s not even natural blonde (it is highlights), so you can&#8217;t even claim that they are identical twins. &#8220;Blondes by numbers&#8221;, I call them.<\/p>\n<p>And still the cursor flashes. Go away, stupid cursor.<\/p>\n<p>[guide]: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a slow day at lectures, I decide to retire to the computer room to waste a couple of hours. I contemplate writing a [guide][] entry on Tchaikovsky, but abort my efforts after not knowing how to start it. The cursor just flashes at me, seemingly saying &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to help you with this [&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":[123],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tchaikovsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}