{"id":239,"date":"2007-01-18T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=239"},"modified":"2007-01-18T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T16:04:58","slug":"r-was-right-im-a-machine-enthusiast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"R was right, I&#8217;m a machine enthusiast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdtests.com\/ft_nq.php?im\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; border: groove #FFFFFF;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nerdtests.com\/images\/ft\/nq.php?val=4798\" alt=\"I am nerdier than 99% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!\"><\/a><br \/>\nI constantly argue that an enthusiasm for machines (computers, cars, watches, rockets etc.) and how they work makes me curious rather than nerdy. Unfortunately thanks to a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbwan.com\">JB<\/a> I can confirm the horrible truth. Despite all the attempts to branch out, be an entrepreneur (LOL) I&#8217;m a geek.  Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve more interest in maths &#038; mechanics than I have in computers at the moment. I guess it&#8217;s a growing sense of ennui as each new development fails to deliver on the promise of easy application development and instead creates a new language to learn or a new toolset. Some days it seems great, others I feel like I&#8217;m an aging practitioner of a dying and arcane art. I remember reading Doug Coupland&#8217;s book Microserfs and thinking that nerds just weren&#8217;t supposed to grow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I constantly argue that an enthusiasm for machines (computers, cars, watches, rockets etc.) and how they work makes me curious rather than nerdy. Unfortunately thanks to a link from JB I can confirm the horrible truth. Despite all the attempts to branch out, be an entrepreneur (LOL) I&#8217;m a geek. Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve more interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}