{"id":176,"date":"2000-06-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-06-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/06\/13\/endless_drearin\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:29:27","slug":"endless_drearin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/06\/13\/endless_drearin\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Dreariness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of my freelance gigs<\/strong> is a consulting project for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asme.org\" >American Society of Mechanical Engineers<\/a>, doing some research about a computer system they want to buy. (Yes, I am also a nerd-for-hire by other nerds. Who knew?) Today, I will be sitting through a couple hours of software demos, which would not be much of a treat under the best of circumstances. After my unfortunate bout of insomnia last night, all those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/office\/powerpoint\/default.htm\" >PowerPoint<\/a> presentations and all that corporate jargon will surely kill me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my freelance gigs is a consulting project for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, doing some research about a computer system they want to buy. (Yes, I am also a nerd-for-hire by other nerds. Who knew?) Today, I will be sitting through a couple hours of software demos, which would not be much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/06\/13\/endless_drearin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Endless Dreariness&#8221;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultranerdy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70881,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/70881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}