{"id":83,"date":"2007-10-15T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=83"},"modified":"2007-10-15T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T05:56:06","slug":"stir-fried-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Stir-fried random&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few brief random comments for the moment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Am I the only one who is already completely sick and tired of the word &#8220;spooky&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>I think I&#8217;ve figured out what Descartes&#8217; problem is.  He&#8217;s gone on this meditation where he&#8217;s convinced himself that as far as he knows, nothing exists&#8230;except for himself.  I think what happens next is that he gets horribly lonely, so when he realizes that his thoughts also exist with him, that&#8217;s when he developed that unwholesome passion for them and inability to bear leaving them that I&#8217;d previously mentioned.  &#8220;But what kind of thing am I?  I&#8217;m a thing that thinks.  A thinking thing is what I am.  But what kind of thing is that?  Oh, yeah, I already said, it&#8217;s a thinking thing.  Did I mention I was a thinking thing that thinks thoughts?&#8230;.&#8221;.  Okay, Descartes, we got it the first time&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>One of my fellow &#8220;college science bloggers whose obscurity currently keeps them low in the vote totals&#8221; actually has a pretty neat blog.  <a href=\"http:\/\/biourbanist.com\" title=\"The Biourbanist\">The Biourbanist<\/a> focusses on features and attributes of urban areas.  Well worth adding to your RSS feeds, I think.  After you&#8217;ve already voted for <em>me<\/em>, of course&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I am currently attempting to put together my first <span class=\"moreinfo\" title=\"I'm not calling it a 'podcast' because of potential trademark issues and, more importantly, because I don't want anyone thinking they need to have 'iTunes' or an iPod to listen to it.  This Week In Tech does the same thing.\" onclick=\"alert(this.title);\">netcast<\/span>, in which I shall attempt to crunch an explanation of why microbial fuel cells work, in a form hopefully comprehensible to anyone with a good junior-high-school science education (or a mediocre high-school education, which is probably sadly more common), that fits into 90 seconds.  Wish me luck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<br \/>\nUPDATE: Got the &#8220;pod&#8221;\/netcast done &#8211; a real blog post on the subject of Microbial Fuel Cells to go with it may be found here tomorrow (Tuesday, October 16th) sometime, so long as nothing unexpected happens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/blogvote.html\" height=\"256\" width=\"512\">I guess your browser can&#8217;t see &#8220;iframes&#8221; &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to click &lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/blogvote.html&#8221; title=&#8221;2-click voting for my blog&#8221; target=&#8221;newWindow&#8221;&gt;here&lt;\/a&gt; for the magic solution<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few brief random comments for the moment: Am I the only one who is already completely sick and tired of the word &#8220;spooky&#8221;? I think I&#8217;ve figured out what Descartes&#8217; problem is. He&#8217;s gone on this meditation where he&#8217;s convinced himself that as far as he knows, nothing exists&#8230;except for himself. I think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=83\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stir-fried random&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,14,13,12,6,5,21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feedback-solicitation","category-general-philosophy","category-grossly-oversimplified-science","category-me-me-me","category-meta-blogging","category-microbiology","category-nerdity","category-play-with-it","category-why-does-it-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}