{"id":186,"date":"2007-10-19T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snee.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/19\/random-friday-stuff\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:41:04","slug":"random-friday-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Random Friday stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst moving between offices this morning, I happened upon TGND so settled in for a bit of a geeky chat.<\/p>\n<p>It all started promisingly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Have you heard of Geek Squad?&#8221; he asks.<br \/>\n&#8220;It rings a vague bell.&#8221; says I.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna call them and have a dictaphone to record them&#8230;&#8221; he goes on, with an evil smirk.<br \/>\n&#8220;Why&#8217;s that?&#8221; I enquire.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna ask them some questions regarding Linux, and when they say they don&#8217;t do Linux, I&#8217;m gonna say &#8216;What kind of geeks are you? you&#8217;re not geeks, you&#8217;re nerds!'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had to agree with him there.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation then went on with me noting that there was only 1\/2 hour and an hour until the weekend (I have no idea why I said it that way either).<\/p>\n<p>This led him to (mildly) rant about how old people say strange things regarding time: &#8220;5 and 20 to 4.&#8221; and such.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow this led to us discussing whether time would exist after the end of the world (I know, I know). Personally I think it would:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What&#8217;s the time now?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;20 minutes past the end of the world&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Damn, did you set the video for Eastenders?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Random Fridays &#8211; I love &#8217;em<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst moving between offices this morning, I happened upon TGND so settled in for a bit of a geeky chat. It all started promisingly: &#8220;Have you heard of Geek Squad?&#8221; he asks. &#8220;It rings a vague bell.&#8221; says I. &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna call them and have a dictaphone to record them&#8230;&#8221; he goes on, with an evil smirk. &#8220;Why&#8217;s that?&#8221; I enquire. &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna ask them some questions regarding Linux, and when they say they don&#8217;t do Linux, I&#8217;m gonna say &#8216;What kind of geeks are you? you&#8217;re not geeks, you&#8217;re nerds!&#8217;&#8221; I had to agree with him there. The conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[187,231,323,374,551,565],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-end-of-the-world","tag-geek","tag-linux","tag-nerd","tag-tgnd","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}