{"id":1821,"date":"2008-05-25T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T23:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2008-05-25T21:08:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T00:08:51","slug":"sinking-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"Sinking Brick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>hat is more exciting than a rant<a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1822' rel=\"attachment wp-att-1822\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/an_oil_tanker-150x61.jpg\" alt=\"The Sinking Brick\" title=\"An Oil Tanker\" width=\"150\" height=\"61\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1822\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/an_oil_tanker-150x61.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/an_oil_tanker-300x122.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/an_oil_tanker.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/section\/3\/story.cfm?c_id=3&#038;objectid=10512289\">rising gas prices<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peak_oil\">peak oil<\/a>? Why, a photo of an oil tanker in the Bay, of course!\n<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s attention grabber was Weezer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI\">video for their new song, &#8216;Beans and Pork&#8217;<\/a>, which apparently stars prominent YouTube &#8216;dignitaries&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/71921\/Weezer-Pork-and-Beans\">MetaFilter<\/a>). Maybe I&#8217;m not really following YouTube, but I only recognized a couple of them. I&#8217;m also not really a fan of Weezer&#8217;s music. I read that The Barenaked Ladies were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FoFMRXlNJ6Y\">the first ones<\/a> to have used Internet memes in their video production.\n<\/p>\n<p>The new Indiana Jones (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianajones.com\/site\/index.html\">&#8220;Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&#8221;<\/a>) came out this week: muchly anticipated with good reviews (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/indiana_jones_4\/\">7.4 on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>). This week, the movie made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=indianajones4.htm\">over 120,000 dollars at the box-office<\/a>. Earlier, the game <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hVLnDu3OLPfL9gVGgA4ybW_EuIsQD90H0BGO2\">&#8220;Grand Theft Auto 4&#8221;<\/a> brought in over 500,000 USD in only one week.\n<\/p>\n<p>So, today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jfQynMkrR9xW6iqcnasCp9Xp6Guw\">Phoenix Mars Lander<\/a> is landing on Mars (ha-ha) and you can (could) follow this at <a href=\"http:\/\/phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu\/\">NASA&#8217;s Phoenix website<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu\/blogs.php\">blog<\/a>). Looking at the mission&#8217;s logo, I can&#8217;t help thinking that it was inspired by the FireFox logo.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><em>Update (21:08): <\/em>I guess the Phoenix <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/space\/05\/25\/mars.lander\/index.html\">just (succesfully) landed<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is more exciting than a rant about rising gas prices and peak oil? Why, a photo of an oil tanker in the Bay, of course! This week&#8217;s attention grabber was Weezer&#8217;s video for their new song, &#8216;Beans and Pork&#8217;, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1821\">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":[13,301,11],"tags":[139,309,136,302,187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821"}],"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=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}