{"id":132,"date":"2004-03-02T20:28:30","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T00:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:09:57","slug":"something-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/03\/02\/something-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"Something&#8230; awful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Current mood: <\/strong>Tired<\/p>\n<p><strong>Currently listening to: <\/strong>Kick Bong &#8211; Vaporum (DIGITALLY IMPORTED &#8211; Chillout)<\/p>\n<p>Not really something &#8220;awful,&#8221; but&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingawful.com\">SomethingAwful<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/infinity_pages\/images\/coredump\/dark_helmet_personal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/infinity_pages\/images\/coredump\/princess_is_in_another_castle.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just some of the random stuff I&#8217;ve run across recently.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to bed. Another day is gone&#8230; but what a nice day it was. I think we can safely say that &#8220;Spring&#8221; (whatever <em>that<\/em> is) is here. Of course, it&#8217;ll probably snow again in a week&#8230; this is New England, after all.<\/p>\n<p>-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really something &#8220;awful,&#8221; but&#8230; Just some of the random stuff I&#8217;ve run across recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-pictures","tag-fun-stuff","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-28","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":302,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/11\/23\/amusing-os-mascots\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":0},"title":"Amusing OS Mascots","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"An amusing thing I've stumbled across recently is the concept of \"OS-tan\", which is basically unofficial OS \"mascot\" characters.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;fun stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"fun stuff","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/fun-stuff\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":961,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/10\/31\/time-flows-like-a-river-and-history-repeats\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":1},"title":"Time flows like a river\u2026 and history repeats","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It occurred to me recently that Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, and all those sorts of sites are just like GeoCities and Tripod were back in the early days of the web - in other words, filled with awful, horrible, ugly web pages that nobody wants to look at.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Rants&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Rants","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/rants\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/09\/09\/hacker-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":2},"title":"Hacker Love","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 9, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Just for fun, here's a bunch of stuff you (my dear reader, or two - I think there might be two of you out there) might want to read to get to know me and my kind (hackers) a bit better. 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