{"id":71,"date":"2006-07-20T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-07-20T15:23:27","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T19:23:27","slug":"dont-make-me-put-you-on-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t make me put you on the list&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friends!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an elusive li&#8217;l bastard, ain&#8217;t I? Just when you think I&#8217;m starting to keep to an almost-regualr posting schedule, I run away to the beach for a few days. And when I come back, I act like I&#8217;m more interested in playing <em>Rome: Total War<\/em> than in updating this here blog. Which, of course, I am.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t think I haven&#8217;t had the best interests of you, the reader, in mind though. I have been spending this away-from-the-blog time in the most productive way I can; by thinking of ways to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n<p>I present it to you now. My list of ways to make the world better. I have titled this list<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>THINGS THAT PISS ME OFF<\/strong><\/u><strong> (in no particular order)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>people who back in to their parking space and aren&#8217;t driving delivery trucks<\/li>\n<li>people who ask for your advice and then talk over your answer<\/li>\n<li>moreso if the talking-over consists of what they think you will say<\/li>\n<li>coworkers who monopolize your time and then refer to themselves as &#8220;your favorite person&#8221; when calling to ask for one more thing<\/li>\n<li>empty bathroom. guy comes in. sits in adjacent stall. buffer, dude. buffer.<\/li>\n<li>that bastard the Dalai Lama<\/li>\n<li>(ok, not really. just thought it would be funny)<\/li>\n<li>bullet-pointed lists that go off on a tangent<\/li>\n<li>the contractors who just poured a new parking pad for my house-flipping neighbor and left all their debris in the alley<\/li>\n<li>laundry<\/li>\n<li>tailgaters<\/li>\n<li>use of speakerphone when not necessary. (the only times speakerphone is necessary involve gov&#8217;t experts working to deflect an asteroid or perhaps the &#8216;phone a friend&#8217; portion of &#8216;Who Wants to be a Millionaire?&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>running out of ideas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not an angry man, I just want the world to be a better place.<\/p>\n<p>Assholes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friends! I&#8217;m an elusive li&#8217;l bastard, ain&#8217;t I? Just when you think I&#8217;m starting to keep to an almost-regualr posting schedule, I run away to the beach for a few days. And when I come back, I act like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=71\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}