{"id":503,"date":"2009-04-08T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T23:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2009-04-08T22:18:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T04:18:44","slug":"miscellany-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An assortment of links I&#8217;ve had hanging around and need to either use or forget:<\/p>\n<p>Moe Lane thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/moelane.com\/2009\/03\/27\/if-your-school-has-to-issue-a-press-release-denying-your-vampire-problem\/\">you <em>must<\/em> have a vampire problem<\/a> if you have to deny that you have one.<\/p>\n<p>Sexy maids. <a href=\"http:\/\/nextround.net\/2009\/03\/06\/the-real-life-sexy-maid-service-finally-happened-in-canada\/\">Not just for Halloween<\/a> anymore (in Canada, anyway).<\/p>\n<p>A couple of good cooking blogs are <a href=\"http:\/\/thecrepesofwrath.wordpress.com\/\">The Crepes of Wrath<\/a> (love the name) and <a href=\"http:\/\/thepioneerwoman.com\/cooking\/category\/all-pw-recipes\/\">The Pioneer Woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/mt-archives\/culture_civilization\/dirty_jobs_mike.php\">Ruminations on work<\/a> by Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs. I could probably have embedded the video here, but <a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/\">American Digest<\/a> is worth the visit, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicshorts.com\/index.shtml\">classic short stories<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefump.com\/index.php\">not-necessarily-classic music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/delaneyrm\/index.html\">Bob Delaney&#8217;s Science Software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Building a computerized security system? You may want one of <a href=\"http:\/\/kadtronix.com\/digio\/motion\/usb_motion.htm\">these<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/project-apollo.net\/text\/rpg.html\">The Grand List of Console Role-Playing Game Cliches.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Need to <a href=\"http:\/\/nine.frenchboys.net\/palette.php\">generate a palette<\/a> for a website?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yuni.com\/library\/latin.html\">Latin Quotes and Sayings<\/a> (watch out for popups &#8211; Firefox blocks &#8217;em for me, but lets me know they&#8217;re there).<\/p>\n<p>Wanna see how you do solving math problems with a computer? Go <a href=\"http:\/\/projecteuler.net\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may want to keep <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/captaindan\">this<\/a> in mind for the next Talk Like A Pirate Day.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, somebody who&#8217;s been having fun with newspaper classified advertisements:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XEc3R6TXSVA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XEc3R6TXSVA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: One more story. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-1167826\/Want-chat-chap-Cut-small-talk-say-scientists.html?ITO=1490\">Ladies, if you want to pick up a guy, don&#8217;t just hint about it. Come out and tell him directly<\/a>. Reminds me of a button I used to have, which read, &#8220;Don&#8217;t just flirt, hit me with a clue-by-four.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know where that one disappeared to. I can&#8217;t find the one that reads, &#8220;Cooking is great &#8211; it&#8217;s a wonderful excuse to play with knives and fire,&#8221; either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assortment of links I&#8217;ve had hanging around and need to either use or forget: Moe Lane thinks you must have a vampire problem if you have to deny that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}