{"id":3284,"date":"2009-12-07T23:14:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T07:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2009-12-08T06:31:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:31:50","slug":"evil-portents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3284","title":{"rendered":"Evil portents."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figure getting NONE of the numbers right on my Megabucks lottery ticket is probably a sign of the luck I always have and I&#8217;m probably being punished for watching the fake computer-generated cartoon news from China about Tiger Woods. However, it&#8217;s probably libelous (in Chinese, anyway) and I find it hilarious. Mainly because I expect them to start blaming UFOs or something like the Pravda web site always does.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to write something about getting close to DFL at the gym, but really I&#8217;m just trending towards the bottom end of the bell curve and am probably within a sigma or so and I also add other crap to the workout. More weight, deeper pushups, whatever I can to make it so I can&#8217;t effectively compare myself to anyone else&#8217;s performance. It&#8217;s all about smoke and mirrors, really, or just make-believe in my case. It&#8217;s much more fun that way. None of this getting up at 5AM to take my mom for eye surgery or getting to work only to find out a co-worker died in a sea kayaking accident in my fantasy world. (R.I.P. Dave Graham.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figure getting NONE of the numbers right on my Megabucks lottery ticket is probably a sign of the luck I always have and I&#8217;m probably being punished for watching the fake computer-generated cartoon news from China about Tiger Woods. However, it&#8217;s probably libelous (in Chinese, anyway) and I find it hilarious. Mainly because I expect them to start blaming UFOs or something like the Pravda web site always does. I was going to write something about getting close to DFL at the gym, but really I&#8217;m just trending towards the bottom end of the bell curve and am probably within a sigma or so and I also add other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evil portents.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}