{"id":852,"date":"2009-03-26T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2009-03-26T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T05:00:23","slug":"making-a-mockery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/making-a-mockery\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Mockery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was recently noting over at <a href=\"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/swanjun\/?p=1849\">SiB<\/a>, I have felt very comfortable mocking and making fun of Twilight, even though I have not actually read the book and have no plans to do so.  While my knowledge of it is not intimate, I do know enough to know that my scorn is not heaped upon an unworthy object.<\/p>\n<p>Until tonight, I had a similar relationship with Windows Vista. I had never used the beast, though I had seen it in person a few times, yet I derided it as the biggest piece of crap to come out of Microsoft since Windows Me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, let me tell you, Bob just got a new laptop with Vista on, and I&#8217;ve spent the last while playing around with it.  And it is the biggest piece of crap to come out of Microsoft since Windows Me.<\/p>\n<p>It is so annoying, slow and has the stupidest set of defaults enabled that anyone could possibly have come up with. Who the hell was in their user testing group? Seriously?  Here are my guesses:<br \/>\n* Double agents hired by Steve Jobs<br \/>\n* Clockwork monkeys<br \/>\n* The brilliant minds at CNBC<br \/>\n* Those who think Edward Cullen is romantic and not a creepyass stalker. Sorry, SPARKLING stalker. (Sorry hon, Mitaka did it better than you 20 years ago.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was recently noting over at SiB, I have felt very comfortable mocking and making fun of Twilight, even though I have not actually read the book and have no plans to do so. While my knowledge of it is not intimate, I do know enough to know that my scorn is not heaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}