{"id":146,"date":"2004-02-23T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Miscellany\/About\/notdeadyet.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"notdeadyet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2004\/02\/23\/notdeadyet\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh, I&#8217;m&#8230; I&#8217;m not quite dead, sir."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been a week since my last blog entry, I thought I&#8217;d allay any fears (hopes?) of my demise.  Not quite dead, just far too busy.  I&#8217;ll try to do better next week.<\/p>\n<p>Serendipity check: While thinking of a title for this post (you&#8217;ve probably noticed that I fancy myself clever in that department), I considered the old Mark Twain saw &#8220;Rumours of my death have been greatly exagerated&#8221;.  I rejected it for two reasons.  First, it&#8217;s overused.  Second, it seems like I looked up the text for that once before, and it&#8217;s not exactly what everyone thinks.  Instead I thought of the above quote from <cite>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/cite>.  While Googling to check the exact wording, I stumbled across the (self-proclaimed) <a href=\"http:\/\/arago4.tn.utwente.nl\/stonedead\/movies\/holy-grail\/main.html#script\">world&#8217;s most accurate script<\/a>, a scene-by-scene script of the movie.  Much of the dialog is linked to soundbites of the actual dialog.  How cool is that?  (The quote itself is from <a href=\"http:\/\/arago4.tn.utwente.nl\/stonedead\/movies\/holy-grail\/scene-15.html\">scene 15<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The only downside is that all of the dialog is in Real Audio format.  Guess it&#8217;s time to go download that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/audiohelp.shtml?help\">spyware free Real Audio distro<\/a> from the <span class=\"caps\">BBC.  <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been a week since my last blog entry, I thought I&#8217;d allay any fears (hopes?) of my demise. Not quite dead, just far too busy. I&#8217;ll try to do better next week. Serendipity check: While thinking of a title for this post (you&#8217;ve probably noticed that I fancy myself clever in that department), I [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}