{"id":186,"date":"2001-05-15T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2001-05-15T23:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=186"},"modified":"2001-05-15T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2001-05-15T23:06:06","slug":"theres-nowt-as-queer-as-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/05\/15\/theres-nowt-as-queer-as-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"there&#8217;s nowt as queer as folk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i was in the dentist&#8217;s chair the other week, and during the intervals where i could actually say something intelligible, i was asked what it is i do and responded as usual that i&#8217;m a computer nerd.  we discussed how it&#8217;s great to do what you love and get paid for it.  my hygienist says to me &#8220;i&#8217;m glad you do that and not me &#8211; geez, i couldn&#8217;t program all day, how tedious!&#8221;.  this from someone who&#8217;s ecstatic that she gets to fumble around in strangers&#8217; mouths all day scraping plaque and inhaling halitosis-breath.  it really does take all types to make up the world, doesn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>youngpup calls this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngpup.net\/experiments\/fluid_nav\/\">fluid nav bar experiment<\/a> a failure.  it&#8217;s lessons learned from this type of improvisational &#8216;failure&#8217; that moves us all forward a notch.  i&#8217;ll say it again &#8211; i&#8217;m glad there are people like aaron around to do this creative visual stuff that escapes me.<\/p>\n<p>aaron also reminded me that i&#8217;ve been anticipating this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technicalpursuit.com\/tibet.html\">Tibet<\/a> thing for a while.  should be interesting.  this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damn60.freeserve.co.uk\/jde\/\">JDE<\/a> javascript debugging environment is way neat, too.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/uk\/newsid_1326000\/1326695.stm\">douglas<\/a>, for your wondrous five-part trilogy, for our friend dirk, and of course, for all the fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was in the dentist&#8217;s chair the other week, and during the intervals where i could actually say something intelligible, i was asked what it is i do and responded as usual that i&#8217;m a computer nerd. we discussed how it&#8217;s great to do what you love and get paid for it. my hygienist says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}