{"id":1,"date":"2007-06-26T22:51:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T04:51:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-27T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T06:05:11","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/2007\/06\/26\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Want Wingy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span>Well let me preface this a little bit by stating that I am not much of a blogger.\u00c2\u00a0 I have only written two blogs in my entire life time *gasp* !<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Since I am in a sense, a n00b at this blogging business I am not entirely sure what I should be writing about, and how to go about writing it.\u00c2\u00a0 I imagine my blogs will be tangenty, and scattered, so there. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span>While sitting in my New Media class, immersed in a deeply thrilling discussion, multiple thoughts raced through my head alo<span><\/span>ng the lines of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcohhh remember this for later, it would be good to reflect on in your blog\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 Alas, I am not a memex and therefore I can only remember my most recent thoughts which have nothing to do with my new media class.\u00c2\u00a0 My most recent thoughts long for my next day off from work where I hope to catch up on some much needed sleep. Sometimes (often) during class discussions I feel particularly ignorant and therefore unqualified to participate in the discussion because I do not fully understand things until someone else discusses them and sheds a different perspective which allows me to better grasp an idea.\u00c2\u00a0 I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if that makes any sense.\u00c2\u00a0 It made sense in my head just now. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span>Oh hey! A thought from class&#8230;today I was introduced to the website &#8216;Second Life&#8217; where you can live in the alternate reality of cyberspace with an avatar that represents you (if not physically then at least personality wise).\u00c2\u00a0 This reminded me of Sim City which for me, was a very dangerous game as I would spend hours of my life living in Sim Time without noticing how many hours would fly by in real time (real real time&#8230;you know what I mean as in on earth and not in a computer reality).\u00c2\u00a0 I am a very curious type of person and so naturally I would like to further investigate this &#8216;Second Life&#8217; stuff but I am afraid that in doing so I will waste too much time in my real life, and time is what I do not have much of these days.<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span>In true\u00c2\u00a0Sarah fashion,\u00c2\u00a0here are a few photographs that I took with my camera phone during the class break\/ after class&#8230;<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span>*Well I did not actually take this photo, my friend sent it to me in a text message that I recieved during the class break&#8230;I was amused because I was visuallizing her walking her leashed cat in her front lawn&#8230;if you could see what I visualize, perhaps you would be amused as well.*<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f1\/Sarita-sar27\/n93200336_30267385_9486.jpg\" alt=\"Kat's Monkey\" height=\"344\" \/><\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>*This is a chair that caught my attention (it was on the second floor near the compy lab),\u00c2\u00a0but also frightened me because it&#8217;s awkward lonliness reminded me of the movie entitled &#8216;Session 9&#8217;. (So I tried to insert a link\u00c2\u00a0 here that would lead to the IMDB page for this movie but I haven&#8217;t yet figured out how to insert links into blogs).*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f1\/Sarita-sar27\/n93200336_30267386_7250.jpg\" alt=\"Chair\" height=\"453\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>*The Beast*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f1\/Sarita-sar27\/n93200336_30267387_5223.jpg\" alt=\"Beast\" height=\"443\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8230;I hope I am going in the right direction with this blog thing.\u00c2\u00a0 I will try to be more class related in my future blogs&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well let me preface this a little bit by stating that I am not much of a blogger.\u00c2\u00a0 I have only written two blogs in my entire life time *gasp* !\u00c2\u00a0 Since I am in a sense, a n00b at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/2007\/06\/26\/hello-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}