{"id":952,"date":"2006-07-29T23:52:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T06:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2006-08-03T23:51:05","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T06:51:05","slug":"menace-to-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Menace to society."},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent most of the day in Lake Zero, putatively repairing my old explorer post advisor’s computer. He needed to access some ham radio devices, and get a beat up old digital camera working. I think we succeeded in most of the tasks.<\/p>\n

This evening I attended a birthday party for Melissa, who is married to a guy I’ve known since before kindergarten. He lives just down the street, in a house he bought from his mom and then remodeled. It’s her second 39th birthday, and I got her some flowers.<\/p>\n

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\"Melissa's<\/a><\/div>\n

I had to get kicked out when the party was officially over. I spent a lot of time talking to his relatives, since I’ve know the guy for 38+ years. But I had selfish thoughts about the flowers I bought his wife, and how, somehow, He owes me<\/em>. He makes a bunch more money than I do, and is a Harvard MBA internet millionaire and CEO of yet another internet company. I had to go walking all over the neighborhood looking for an open florist (even asking the owners of my local bicycle shop:<\/p>\n

You’re married guys, where do you buy flowers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Guy 1: I don’t do flowers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Guy 2: I don’t do flowers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some help they were.)<\/p>\n

I did the following calculation:<\/p>\n

\"Gift<\/div>\n

Which amounts to:<\/p>\n

\"Gift<\/a><\/div>\n

Or, in other words, No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, it was a good time, and while describing my life with my parents and being an Asian son I quoted my co-worker who said I was a menace to society. Then I found out that this quote is often attributed to Brigham Young:<\/p>\n

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty-seven is a menace to the community.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fifteen years of menacing society and still going strong!<\/b><\/p>\n

Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent most of the day in Lake Zero, putatively repairing my old explorer post advisor’s computer. He needed to access some ham radio devices, and get a beat up old digital camera working. I think we succeeded in most of the tasks. This evening I attended a birthday party for Melissa, who is married to a guy I’ve known since before kindergarten. He lives just down the street, in a house he bought from his mom and then remodeled. It’s her second 39th birthday, and I got her some flowers. I had to get kicked out when the party was officially over. I spent a lot of time talking … Continue reading Menace to society.<\/span> →<\/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-952","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\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}