{"id":196,"date":"2003-08-11T20:27:41","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T00:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/cats_and_dogs_living_together"},"modified":"2003-08-11T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T00:27:41","slug":"cats_and_dogs_living_together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2003\/08\/cats_and_dogs_living_together.html","title":{"rendered":"Cats and Dogs, Living Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Civilization is coming to an end. No, really. Consider the following: last Tuesday’s post, which was about tedious markup language minutiae<\/a>, got seventeen comments. The post right before that, which was about the sleazy goings-on at a bachelor party<\/a>, got a grand total of one comment. Call me crazy, but when esoteric XHTML<\/acronym> issues are considered to be more important than girls in short-shorts, something has gone Seriously Wrong.<\/p>\n

Not that I’m complaining about my little three-month experiment with comments<\/a>. So far the level of discourse has been far better than expected. Tuesday’s post was a perfect example: people who I greatly respect were writing in and discussing the issues at hand in a thoughtful and informative manner. It’s like freakin’ NPR<\/acronym> over here. Note that at the same time, poor Mark Pilgrim<\/a> posted about his experience installing Windows XP<\/a> and received over 200 helpful comments informing him that “your an idiot” or advising him to “get a Mac.” Yeah, Mark — what are you waiting for<\/a>?<\/p>\n

In other news: last weekend was my ten-year high school reunion. Last year Brian had to practically drag<\/em> me to my five-year college reunion, which turned out to be a lot more fun than I thought<\/a>. So I was definitely looking forward to the high school reunion, and the reunion did not disappoint.1<\/a><\/sup> My only major mistake was in choosing to host a small post-reunion party, thus giving Nancy the opportunity to snicker at the contents of my bachelor’s fridge.2<\/a><\/sup> I swear<\/em> that it was full of vegetables just a couple of days before…<\/p>\n

Finally, I’ve started a new job with Chordiant Software<\/a>. It’s not earthshaking news or anything (“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — CHORDIANT SOFTWARE, INC. ACQUIRES WAYWARD TECH WRITER…”), but I’m pretty excited about it nonetheless. New people to meet, new projects to work on, new software to play with — and a supply closet fully stocked with Swingline staplers<\/a>. Pinch me!<\/p>\n

<\/a>1. Although unlike last year’s college reunion, nobody proposed marriage to Sherry. Seems like an oversight, but what can you do?<\/small><\/p>\n

<\/a>2. Three beers, assorted condiments, and some cheese.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Call me crazy, but when esoteric XHTML<\/acronym> issues are considered to be more important than girls in short-shorts, something has gone Seriously Wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}