{"id":1185,"date":"2007-09-11T20:51:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T00:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2019-10-26T20:51:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T00:51:46","slug":"coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/11\/coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Went to a meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greythumb.org\/wiki\/WikiHome\">greythumb<\/a> group this evening. Cool stuff. Smart people, in many different ways. This month&#8217;s speaker talked about synthetic biology and designing organisms from scratch. I&#8217;m next month&#8217;s speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the other people there, I met <a href=\"http:\/\/virgil.gr\/\">Virgil<\/a>, the guy who made the <a>Wikipedia<\/a> de-referencer. He was mentioned on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CdtBGK-i8lw\">The Colbert Report<\/a> &#8230; from which I recognized him. Odd and interesting. I thanked him for sticking it to the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that, I went across the street with <a href=\"http:\/\/technolope.livejournal.com\/\">technolope<\/a> to another bar for another bit of socializing. Wound up staying and talking far too late about plans to find and mass-moon the google camera truck &#8230; and fantasizing about a mighty artistic commune in Detroit &#8230; in a 16,000 square foot mansion that&#8217;s currently listed for sale at less than a million bucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My life is awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to a meeting of the greythumb group this evening. Cool stuff. Smart people, in many different ways. This month&#8217;s speaker talked about synthetic biology and designing organisms from scratch. I&#8217;m next month&#8217;s speaker. Among the other people there, I met Virgil, the guy who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}