{"id":17,"date":"2002-06-23T01:18:59","date_gmt":"2002-06-23T07:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/06\/23\/so-im-minding-my-own-business\/"},"modified":"2002-06-23T01:18:59","modified_gmt":"2002-06-23T07:18:59","slug":"so-im-minding-my-own-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/06\/23\/so-im-minding-my-own-business\/","title":{"rendered":"So I&#8217;m minding my own business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>So I&#8217;m minding my own business, hacking some <A HREF=\"http:\/\/perl.com\/\">Perl<\/A> on a lazy Sunday afternoon and and my lovely wife walks in and asks: &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; It was at that moment I had to come to grips with the fact that what I was doing was writing <A href=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/bin\/wormplayer\">a program to play a game<\/A>. Not only did I have to admit to myself that this was what I was doing, I had to consider the implications of it. I had to admit to myself that I had gone above and beyond mere laziness and entered a whole new realm. It was, needless to say a sobering experience. I had to dig deep within myself to muster my reply: &#8220;Aw, nothin&#8217;.&#8221; <\/P><P> <A href=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/gallery\/party35\/party8\">Monroe<\/A> stopped by yesterday and we did a little recording. We apparently have some latency issues with the equipment that we need to work out, but it was a good excercise. Just one take per track and the exacting production standards are evidenced by the 10 seconds of virtual tape hiss at the beginning, but I&#8217;m posting <A href=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/music\/strangledown.ogg\">it<\/A> on the <A href=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/music\/\">Music<\/A> page because I want T.F. Miles to see that we need a drummer. Also a personal note to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.malfordmilligan.com\/\">Malford Milligan<\/A>: We don&#8217;t work cheap, but we&#8217;re dependable.  <\/P><P> <B>Update:<\/B> fixed bad links. (Thanks [Cadet]) <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m minding my own business, hacking some Perl on a lazy Sunday afternoon and and my lovely wife walks in and asks: &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; It was at that moment I had to come to grips with the fact that what I was doing was writing a program to play a game. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}