{"id":1133,"date":"2006-06-19T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2006-06-20T07:02:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T10:02:52","slug":"h-umor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"H-umor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>ver<a id=\"p1134\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1134\" title=\"Hey, you really want to be a programmer, right?\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Ich%20Bin%20Eine%20Programmeur.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, you really want to be a programmer, right?\" \/><\/a> at the Old Grande Lady of Paperworks, The Times that is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/18\/fashion\/sundaystyles\/18ze.html?ei=5090&#038;en=4ea006130a1baabe&#038;ex=1308283200&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">an interview with phenomenon Ze Frank<\/a> from the Ze Frank Show, a show that you either like or don&#8217;t like. That said, the following quote from Clay Shirky struck me as hilarious:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">Most people aren&#8217;t funny, and most funny people are not funny most of the time.\n<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough. The latest coolest of cool trend is to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.medallia.com\/2006\/05\/smacbook_pro.html\">smack your MacBook<\/a><\/em> and, apparently, it works on some PCs too (<a href=\"http:\/\/micampe.it\/2006\/06\/04\/here-comes-the-smackpad\">IBM ThinkPad version\/Linux<\/a>). Actually, let me restate that quote above: good programmers are funny but then in a boring way <sup>1<\/sup>. I&#8217;ve yet to meet a <em>macho<\/em> programmer. But then, maybe in the next 10 years, if the next generation of programmers grows up and evolves into a more practical and (particularly) social species. You know: the Arnold Schwarzenegger-type of programmer.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup> There is no footnote here<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Old Grande Lady of Paperworks, The Times that is, an interview with phenomenon Ze Frank from the Ze Frank Show, a show that you either like or don&#8217;t like. That said, the following quote from Clay Shirky &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}