{"id":942,"date":"2006-07-16T00:08:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T07:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2006-07-16T00:10:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-16T07:10:54","slug":"some-things-just-make-me-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Some things just make me nervous."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has certain things that make them nervous, and as a geek I feel like there should be a graph of nervous, and if you&#8217;re likely to do it. For example, I&#8217;m never completely comfortable talking to my boss about my performance. It&#8217;s something I always will do, because <b>I have to do it<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Higher up on the scale is like getting up out of bed and telling the loud kids to go the hell home. I just ran off some kids who were way too young to be out this late (I know, it&#8217;s only midnight) and were talking too loudly while hanging out by the school. I&#8217;ll do that sometimes, but much more often I just bother the police about it. They&#8217;re usually just regular (rich) kids from the neighborhood and they&#8217;re easy to run off.<\/p>\n<p>Highest on the scale is actually asking anyone out. I never do that. (Besides, I have empirical evidence that I just get shut down, so there&#8217;s really no reason to even have to do anything.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just writing this all down because I&#8217;m still jittery from having to confront the future of America and wonder where their adult supervision is. A childless man living with his elderly parents shouldn&#8217;t be the one getting these kids home before curfew, it should be their own parents. <b>BREEDERS, I&#8217;M TALKING TO YOU!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has certain things that make them nervous, and as a geek I feel like there should be a graph of nervous, and if you&#8217;re likely to do it. For example, I&#8217;m never completely comfortable talking to my boss about my performance. It&#8217;s something I always will do, because I have to do it. Higher up on the scale is like getting up out of bed and telling the loud kids to go the hell home. I just ran off some kids who were way too young to be out this late (I know, it&#8217;s only midnight) and were talking too loudly while hanging out by the school. I&#8217;ll do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some things just make me nervous.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","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\/942","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}