{"id":526,"date":"2007-04-13T08:21:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2008-06-21T23:01:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T06:01:16","slug":"brain-fart-trapped-in-a-virtual-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Brain Fart, Trapped In A Virtual Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As great reading goes this isn&#8217;t, but it hit me yesterday and I wanted to write it down, if for no other reason than to have it serve as a (?)permanent(?) record of the event in question. I don&#8217;t trust hardware or software <em>that<\/em> much, but I think I might trust it more than my wetware.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger-airliner-sewage-dump-sized chunk of memory fell out of the sky and crashed into me on the road yesterday. Margaret and I were driving through the Kent Valley area returning from an errand, and the phrase &#8220;Kent Valley&#8221; started bouncing around in my mind, deforming a bit with each ricochet. Kent Valley&#8230;.Valley of Kent&#8230;.yea, though I walk through the Valley of Kent&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I started giggling as I flashed back on a day when I was maybe age ten or eleven, when I walked around the corner to my friend Gavin&#8217;s house. His older brother Brian had just finished putting the last touches on a large color poster. Unlike his usual fare of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KISS_(band)\">KISS<\/a> color-by-number jobbies, this was 100% handmade.<\/p>\n<p>It featured a large, angry-looking caveman type, wearing the standard animal-skin wrap and brandishing a club. Above him were the words,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY<br \/>\nOF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL<br \/>\nFOR I AM THE BIGGEST, MEANEST SON OF A BITCH<br \/>\nIN THE WHOLE DAMN VALLEY.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brian and I never had what I would call a cordial relationship, but I did always admire his sense of humor.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As great reading goes this isn&#8217;t, but it hit me yesterday and I wanted to write it down, if for no other reason than to have it serve as a (?)permanent(?) record of the event in question. I don&#8217;t trust hardware or software that much, but I think I might trust it more than my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}