{"id":654,"date":"2009-10-02T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/nerd\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T12:02:00","slug":"nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"nerd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve crossed a line recently, falling from the safe haven of geek-dom to full blown nerd.  Not physically, I don&#8217;t have tape on my glasses or a pocket protector.   But my mental state is on shaky ground.  Evidence&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Getting ready to leave the Chipotle parking lot yesterday, I started my car only to have it fail. The steering wheel locked up, some &#8211; but not all &#8211; of the warning lights came on, and the car wouldn&#8217;t go.  I was still in the space so I quickly turned off the car, then started it again.   It behaved normally from then on.     I referred to this later as &#8220;rebooting&#8221; my car.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2. We were discussing &#8220;under construction&#8221; webpage and how much we don&#8217;t like them.  We compared them to newspapers with blank pages, or movies with missing sections.   One of my co-workers said it was like going to see Up! in 3-d only to find that the movie was actually Hannah Montana.   I said it was like the movie was &#8220;redirected&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3. Finally, my car has recently crossed the 100,000 mile mark and I&#8217;ve been noticing and noting every time the number are binary &#8211; and how I&#8217;ll be sad when 111,112 comes around and it will never be binary again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m considering professional help.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>later&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-7606990946685327071?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve crossed a line recently, falling from the safe haven of geek-dom to full blown nerd. Not physically, I don&#8217;t have tape on my glasses or a pocket protector. But my mental state is on shaky ground. Evidence&#8230; 1. Getting ready to leave the Chipotle parking lot yesterday, I started my car only to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}