{"id":494,"date":"2008-07-18T22:41:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T05:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2008-07-18T22:41:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T05:41:35","slug":"update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the lack of bloggage lately. I&#8217;ve been busy buying a house. We closed escrow and everything, and we&#8217;re moving next week. Can&#8217;t wait until next weekend when it&#8217;ll all be over, relatively speaking.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Mike Vanier&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mvanier.livejournal.com\/998.html\">Foundational Programming Languages<\/a> made the front page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/programming\/\">Proggit<\/a> today. Reading it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=420\">oddly familiar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drhorrible.com\/\">Dr Horrible<\/a> from a few people, and it&#8217;s pretty entertaining. You only have what, a day to go see it and get in on the early adopter status.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed that, go watch <a href=\"http:\/\/vega.org.uk\/video\/subseries\/8\">Richard Feynman&#8217;s lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics<\/a>. No, really. If you have a smattering of high school maths, this is eminently understandable, and it&#8217;s incredible that this isn&#8217;t more widely known or publicised. Basically, QED explains <i>everything<\/i> you know and see everyday (excepting a few things explained by gravity or nuclear physics), and theory fits experiment with an accuracy that is unprecedented in almost any other endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the lack of bloggage lately. I&#8217;ve been busy buying a house. We closed escrow and everything, and we&#8217;re moving next week. Can&#8217;t wait until next weekend when it&#8217;ll all be over, relatively speaking. In other news, Mike Vanier&#8217;s Foundational Programming Languages made the front page of Proggit today&#8230;.<\/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-494","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\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}