{"id":160,"date":"2006-02-07T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2006-02-07T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T23:27:00","slug":"meme-a-tron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Meme-a-tron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: for this meme I am omitting Mrs Elbeno from my friends list. Otherwise it's a non-starter, really.<\/p>\n

Hmm this meme seems like a bit of a typical “aren't I quirky?” self-congratulatory affair. Well let me tell you something, f-list: no matter how much of a rebel-against-society-norms, emo-classical-acid-jazz-loving, “my-favourite-homestar-character-is-strong-sad” type you are, there are 100000000000000 people like you (approx) out there on the Internet. That said, let's have a look at my totally normal life. I have a short f-list, so this will be easy.<\/p>\n

Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.<\/b>
\nCD? Now you're taking me back… Oh all right then, something like the Best of Sonny Boy Williamson? There's a definite chance that the Ben-n-Em-Entity has a CD very similar, but I'm betting no-one strictly on my livejournal<\/i> f-list does, so that's OK.<\/p>\n

Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.<\/b>
\nFiction or non-fiction (easy)? For fiction: hmm, a tricky one; let's try Selected Short Stories<\/a> of Guy de Maupassant – I think that's the one I have. For non-fiction, how about The Visual Display of Quantitative Information<\/a> by Edward R. Tufte.<\/p>\n

Name a movie you own on DVD\/VHS\/whatever that you think no-one else on your friends list does.<\/b>
\nShaolin Soccer<\/a>. Mrs Elbeno doesn't like it, but I think it's great.<\/p>\n

Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friends list has.<\/b>
\nThe Isle of Skye? I doubt that has been there. What makes this list a little difficult is that my f-list includes and , which means I can't just say any old place that probably none of you USians has been, like Ripley or Abinger Hammer. Come to think of it, I could just say: my house.<\/p>\n

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friends list has.<\/b>
\nWell I don't technically own this PS3 devkit on my right. But it's hard to think of anything wouldn't have. How about this: somewhere I have a thing for playing keypad tones down the phone. It's for use on old pulse-dial phones (or was, when they still existed) when dialling into a new-fangled tone-driven menu system such as credit card agencies and airlines use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: for this meme I am omitting Mrs Elbeno from my friends list. Otherwise it's a non-starter, really. Hmm this meme seems like a bit of a typical “aren't I quirky?” self-congratulatory affair. Well let me tell you something, f-list: no matter how much of a rebel-against-society-norms, emo-classical-acid-jazz-loving, “my-favourite-homestar-character-is-strong-sad” type…<\/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-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}