{"id":2180,"date":"2005-04-04T23:23:35","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2005-04-04T23:23:35","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T23:23:35","slug":"more_of_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/more_of_me\/","title":{"rendered":"More of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its bruce again. You know.. Mr. 10,000th comment<\/strong>?
\n(Sounds of trumpets blaring)
\nI’ve done the math, and I’m sure that the first threads of my welcome won’t start unraveling until about Thursday, the day that Heather is destined to return. But I figure that as long as I have access to such kind and literate people, I might as well do some research on a topic of recent interest.
\nI have three new books that I might start reading; The Jungle<\/em> by Upton Sinclair, Walden<\/em> by Henry David Thoreau, or Crime and Punishment<\/em> by Fyoder Dostoevsky. Each has its merits; social justice, personal transformation, a cool russian name…
\nBut really, what’s going to be the deciding factor, is this; which is more likely to impress a girl?<\/em><\/p>\n


\nYou see, a couple of weeks ago I grabbed a book I’d been reading and headed off to the pub for a drink. All was well, until the waitress, a wonderfully cute girl, with long dark hair and a sexy voice comes over, sits down at my table and starts making small talk. Eventually she asks the inevitable, “whatcha reading?” So I have to reveal my book, a geeky title; The Selfish Gene<\/em>, by Richard Dawkins. If there was a reaction, I don’t even recall what it was.
\nNext time, I vowed, I’d bring something more “impressive”. Not because I’m overly concerned about my appearance; because I was, after all, sitting by myself in a nearly empty pub on a Monday night. But I’m just thinking, that if I’m going to be reading in public, I might as well make it a potential conversation piece as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its bruce again. You know.. Mr. 10,000th comment? (Sounds of trumpets blaring) I’ve done the math, and I’m sure that the first threads of my welcome won’t start unraveling until about Thursday, the day that Heather is destined to return. But I figure that as long as I have access to such kind and literate …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}