{"id":9223,"date":"2012-08-17T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2012-08-17T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T01:25:09","slug":"laser-frontiersman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9223","title":{"rendered":"Laser frontiersman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night, after work, I joined some fellow cappers for dinner and then the live simulcast of Rifftrax<\/a>‘s Manos: The Hands of Fate<\/i>. I thought it got off to a slow start, after some very funny shorts, but in the end I thought they did a really great job. It’s been a little while since I last watched the original riff<\/a>, but last night’s was probably its equal. It was a good time, though I didn’t get home from Manhattan until after eleven, and I didn’t really fall asleep until after midnight.<\/p>\n

So it’s probably a good thing I didn’t have to go into the office today. Every year we have some kind of company outing, and today’s was out on Long Island, at the Country Fair Park<\/a> in Medford. That’s about a forty-five-minute drive from here, which seemed like the better option than an hour’s regular commute into Manhattan so that I could be on the bus the company had chartered for 8:45. A bus that, even if it hadn’t been a half an hour late, would have taken half an hour longer than my car ride. Then another hour-plus bus ride back into the city and an hour’s train commute back home. We were done at one o’clock, and by driving I was home before two. I think I definitely picked the right option.<\/p>\n

The park itself was a lot of fun. There were go-karts, laser tag, a driving range, miniature golf, and batting cages. And while I only participated in the first three of those, I’m kind of exhausted now. Running around and shooting co-workers with sensors on their heads and failing to improve my heretofore nonexistent golf game…well, it takes a lot of you. But there was food, and the weather was good — if quite hot — and I got to leave the house at 9 and get home by 2. So I’m really not complaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, after work, I joined some fellow cappers for dinner and then the live simulcast of Rifftrax‘s Manos: The Hands of Fate. I thought it got off to a slow start, after some very funny shorts, but in the end I thought they did a really great job. It’s been a little while since … 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":[14,48,28,52],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-mst3k","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223"}],"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=9223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}