{"id":553,"date":"2005-12-21T01:09:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T06:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2005-12-21T01:09:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T06:09:02","slug":"what-i-learned-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"What I learned today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-Morals be damned when cheating at video games. I had BG in the Sweet Sixteen of College Hoops 2K5, had to put it on &#8220;slow kid&#8221; mode to get there, but I&#8217;m there. A loss to Florida State and a crappy recruiting season later, and it&#8217;s HELLO MR. RESET BUTTON! Ain&#8217;t life grand?<\/p>\n<p>Really, I did it for the good of all. The longer I drag out trying to get BG to win a national championship on that thing, the longer until I start cleaning my apartment for Christmas. As it looks right now, someone&#8217;s going to be sitting on my golf bag for Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n<p>-Procrastination is the best option when you&#8217;re making food for Christmas visitors. Sure it sucks to run to the store on Christmas Eve with all the other (non-penguin) jackasses out there, but if you get good enough food early enough, you&#8217;re just going to eat it anyway, and end up at the store last minute after all. <\/p>\n<p>-In the same vein, mixed nuts are the devil&#8217;s playground.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n-The coolest animal on earth may now be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sugarmrpoon.com\/weblog.php?id=P5179\">the Jackass penguin<\/a>. Naturally, that brings us <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=301\">this direction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(a href=&#8221;http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=jackass%20penguin&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi&#8221;>Photos here, most of the images I found were too big, too crappy, or too copyrighted to drop in here. Cute little jackasses, aren&#8217;t they?)<\/p>\n<p>-Apparently, I can easily pull for fiery, bloody carnage when watching a live police chase on news feeds, but when a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2005\/12\/20\/plane_circles_logan_with_landing_gear_problem\/?p1=MEWell_Pos4\">plane is going down<\/a>, I get this strange sort of moral obligation to not hope for a cartwheel down the runway, as cool as that might be.<\/p>\n<p>-Tyrone Prothro&#8217;s leg (<a href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/27\/49152603_2e9c97fbe6.jpg\">DO NOT stare into the extra knee!<\/a>) proved that the sick feeling I got in that college lecture when listening to the description of a hidden compound fracture on the football field, discovered only when the trainer was feeling the player&#8217;s leg for injury and feeling a warm, wet and sticky sock, wasn&#8217;t a one-time thing. Hell, I don&#8217;t even know how I got through typing that. I&#8217;m such a little bitch when it comes to blood. Especially my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-Morals be damned when cheating at video games. I had BG in the Sweet Sixteen of College Hoops 2K5, had to put it on &#8220;slow kid&#8221; mode to get there, but I&#8217;m there. A loss to Florida State and a crappy recruiting season later, and it&#8217;s HELLO MR. RESET BUTTON! Ain&#8217;t life grand? Really, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I learned today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}