{"id":2692,"date":"2012-08-30T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2012-08-30T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:47:13","slug":"sandbank-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2012\/08\/30\/sandbank-diner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandbank Diner"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my 10,000th tweet I created the monster called RealBrendan<\/a>. When I noticed that I was approaching 15,000, I wanted to do something along the same lines, if possibly a bit less splashy and horrifying. I’d been playing around with the “real name” field on my Twitter profile, disturbing a lot of people by changing it to Dank Nerd Basin (an all-too-accurate anagram of Brendan Adkins). When I went to visit New York last weekend—a great trip I should really write up here as well—Leonard, who was also graciously hosting me, helped me unlock this particular weird joke.<\/p>\n

I’ve crowdsourced my name.<\/a> If you mention @BrendanAdkins in a tweet, and if there are 20 or fewer characters in that tweet (ignoring URLs and usernames), and if those characters contain a B, R, E, D, A and two Ns, the new bot will pick it up and set my “real name” to that. It checks in ten times an hour, and it takes the most recent valid submission.<\/p>\n

A lot of people were doing full anagrams or superset-anagrams yesterday, which were delightful—And Snark In Bed, Nard Skin Benda, Danken d-brains, Kind Banner Ads, BADSKINNY DICKKISSER—but you don’t have to work “Adkins” into it at all if you don’t want to. As of this writing, it’s “Brendan poops?!?” and I encourage you to make it anything<\/i> else as soon as possible. (THANKS, ANNE.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my 10,000th tweet I created the monster called RealBrendan. When I noticed that I was approaching 15,000, I wanted to do something along the same lines, if possibly a bit less splashy and horrifying. I’d been playing around with the “real name” field on my Twitter profile, disturbing a lot of people by changing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,27,19,13,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspirators","category-leonard-richardson","category-mild-lunacy","category-obsessions","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}