{"id":1913,"date":"2009-12-07T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2009-12-07T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T00:38:03","slug":"we-return-you-now-to-masterpiece-chatlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2009\/12\/07\/we-return-you-now-to-masterpiece-chatlog\/","title":{"rendered":"We Return You Now to Masterpiece Chatlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holly and I were discussing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ommatidia.org\/2009\/09\/23\/jake-18\/\" title=\"I honestly can't remember whether I told myself to link to Anacrusis or Ommatidia for these.\">inevitable self-recrimination<\/a> that comes of owning a computer with anything one has ever written on it.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"border: none; width: 400px; margin: auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><b>Brendan:<\/b><\/td>\n<td>I am not sure if there is a way to mature that does not involve violent, sickened hatred toward all one&#8217;s own past incarnations, but&#8211;hang on, I think I just reinvented Buddhism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><b>Holly:<\/b><\/td>\n<td>But Buddhism was invented by someone who didn&#8217;t have computer logs of half the things he&#8217;d ever said or written.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><b>Brendan:<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Well, he WAS a lot cleverer than you or me, Holly.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><b>Holly:<\/b><\/td>\n<td>And ha, yes, teachings &#8220;transmitted orally&#8221; for ages, says wikipedia, so maybe that is indeed the solution.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><b>Holly:<\/b><\/td>\n<td>I bet he invented the computer and then saw what self-recriminations and nausea it would scatter on the path to enlightenment and self-improvement, and hid it at the bottom of a pond or something.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><b>Holly:<\/b><\/td>\n<td>(This is the plot of the next Dan Brown novel.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly and I were discussing the inevitable self-recrimination that comes of owning a computer with anything one has ever written on it. Brendan: I am not sure if there is a way to mature that does not involve violent, sickened hatred toward all one&#8217;s own past incarnations, but&#8211;hang on, I think I just reinvented Buddhism. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holly-gramazio","category-naivete","category-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}