{"id":569,"date":"2005-08-16T21:59:12","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=569"},"modified":"2005-08-16T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T02:59:12","slug":"wherein-i-am-the-filling-in-a-hero-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2005\/08\/16\/wherein-i-am-the-filling-in-a-hero-sandwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I am the filling in a Hero sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Scoble\">Robert Scoble<\/a> tells <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2005\/08\/15.html#a10845\">a story<\/a> about running into <a href=\"http:\/\/youngpup.net\">Aaron Boodman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then Nick introduced us and said &#8220;he wrote Greasemonkey.&#8221; I answered &#8220;I&#8217;m not worthy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This reminded me of the time I first met Aaron, at the dinner thrown by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivepath.com\">Adaptive Path<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/a> at the end of the first day of their <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/ajax_summit.html\">Ajax Summit<\/a> back in May.  I saw him across the room and went over to say hello, since we had had some online interaction in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/rs\">Remote Scripting<\/a> circles some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Later, after having dinner seated beside <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brendan_Eich\">Brendan Eich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/inventors.about.com\/library\/inventors\/bl_javascript.htm\">creator of the Javascript language<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/roadmap\/\">Chief Architect<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">Mozilla<\/a>, I saw Aaron coming our way and took the opportunity to introduce the two of them.  &#8220;Aaron, this is Brendan Eich; Brendan, this is Aaron Boodman&#8221;.  They reach across me to shake hands, and Brendan says &#8220;Wow, Hi Aaron, I love <a href=\"http:\/\/greasemonkey.mozdev.org\/\">your work<\/a>!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Humble as they come, Aaron was dumbstruck.  He managed to stammer &#8220;&#8230;I think you have that the wrong way around!&#8221;, and then they fell into a rich conversation and I slipped away to mingle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Scoble tells a story about running into Aaron Boodman: Then Nick introduced us and said &#8220;he wrote Greasemonkey.&#8221; I answered &#8220;I&#8217;m not worthy.&#8221; This reminded me of the time I first met Aaron, at the dinner thrown by Adaptive Path and O&#8217;Reilly at the end of the first day of their Ajax Summit back [&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-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}