{"id":3527,"date":"2009-08-04T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T22:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2009-08-04T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T22:30:22","slug":"tuesday-various-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3527","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the future of Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/03\/opinion\/03schott.html?_r=2&#038;emc=eta1\">in code<\/a>? Orangeman? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Though I don&#8217;t like it, I&#8217;m not diametrically opposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/30\/business\/30postal.html?_r=2\">five-day-only mail delivery<\/a>. But I&#8217;d be screwed if the post office shut down <i>all<\/i> services on Saturday. That&#8217;s the only chance I get to check my post office box, and usually my only chance to mail anything like issues of <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/\">Act now<\/a> if you want a copy then?!) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingnetflix.com\/\" title=\"Hacking Netflix\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Ah <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/?p=5756\">literary ice creams<\/a>&#8230; If only.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/politics\/nyc.homeless.free.2.1105442.html\">Homeless Offered Free Airfare To Leave NYC<\/a>. I&#8217;m not really sure what to think about this. On the one hand, it&#8217;s an effort to reunite the homeless &#8212; many of whom I&#8217;m sure are teenage runaways &#8212; with family members, who may be better equiped to care for them. On the other hand, it&#8217;s shipping the homeless problem out of state to save some money and make them somebody else&#8217;s problem.<\/li>\n<li>But on a somewhat happier note&#8230; It&#8217;s not often you read the phrase &#8220;aerospace engineer turned composer,&#8221; but I enjoyed reading about these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/stage\/theatreblog\/2009\/jul\/28\/musicals-too-close-to-the-sun\">failed London musicals<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">A common complaint in the reviews for Too Close to the Sun is that the show doesn&#8217;t even fall into the so-bad-it&#8217;s-good category \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that rarefied realm which made Gone With the Wind and Imagine This instant classics of a sort. Crucial to such flops is a sense of failed grand ambitions, which is why the burning of Atlanta in the first was as hilariously inept as the evocation of life in the Warsaw ghetto in the second. To enter the annals of true awfulness, you need to stake a greater claim on the imagination than was ever going to be proffered by a chamber musical about the waning hours of an American novelist. It would have still been a hard sell on the West End if Elton John had written it. (That, by the way, is not a suggestion.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the future of Twitter in code? Orangeman? [via] Though I don&#8217;t like it, I&#8217;m not diametrically opposed to five-day-only mail delivery. But I&#8217;d be screwed if the post office shut down all services on Saturday. That&#8217;s the only chance I get to check my post office box, and usually my only chance to mail &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3527\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,21,4,44,15,6,45,32,10],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-food","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-mail","tag-music","tag-politics","tag-theater","tag-twitter","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}