{"id":476,"date":"2008-06-23T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2008-06-18T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:56:05","slug":"this-i-can-agree-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Things That Have Amused Me Recently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The &#8216;Net is a waste of time, and that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s right about it.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; William Gibson<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead, they celebrate the pan-denominational Wookiee Life Day, which isn&#8217;t as much <EM>celebrated<\/EM> by Star Wars fans around this time of year as it is <EM>observed<\/EM>, like the anniversary of an atrocity.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.amctv.com\/scifiscanner\/2007\/12\/rifftrax-celebr.html\">SciFi Scanner<\/A>, about the infamous <I>Star Wars Holiday Special<\/I><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.makesweet.com\/advice\/klingon\/\">Ask a Klingon<\/A> (Also <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.makesweet.com\/destroy\/\">Destroy the Universe<\/A>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Steven Wright<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that Battlestar Galactica has a Newhart ending, only with Richard Hatch instead of Bob Newhart.<br \/>\n&#8212; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/loresjoberg\">Lore Sj\u00f6berg<\/A><\/p>\n<p>The fact that the Harlan Ellison documentary is called <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.creatvdiff.com\/harlan_ellison.php\">Dreams with Sharp Teeth<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no limit to what a bored nerd can do!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Tagline for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lords-of-blah.nl\/mearth\/mearthmap.html\">Middle Earth Map<\/A>, and truer words have never been spoken.<\/p>\n<p>This:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/eek080201.gif' alt='Eek!' \/><br \/>\n(from <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/eek\/\">Eek!<\/A>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The &#8216;Net is a waste of time, and that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s right about it.&#8221; &#8212; William Gibson &#8220;Instead, they celebrate the pan-denominational Wookiee Life Day, which isn&#8217;t as much celebrated by Star Wars fans around this time of year as it is observed, like the anniversary of an atrocity.&#8221; &#8212; SciFi Scanner, about the infamous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}