{"id":239,"date":"2003-06-10T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/06\/10\/200407879\/"},"modified":"2003-06-10T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2003-06-10T17:06:24","slug":"200407879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/10\/200407879\/","title":{"rendered":"200407879"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>She blinded me with science<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On her blog today, <a href=\"http:\/\/unadorned.org\/dandruff\/archives\/2003\/06\/10\/001775.html#001775\">Steph<\/a> is wondering &laquo; Am I really a computer scientist &raquo;? Well, dear, the big computer lab I saw last night in your tiny place at the top of a Montreal tower looked like a scientific experiment to me: two laptops (G4 and Dell Pentium) with cable connection, tons of windows open on each screen, a Web cam which allowed me to say hi to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la-grange.net\/\">Karl<\/a> and watch him work with Olivier in Japan (Steph is the only person I know who manages to look good on a Web cam picture), your vast itune library (Neil Finn, excellent choice!), messaging and e-mail applications everywhere, ghosted alternate desktops on the G4, dark and mysterious UNIX based commands which you typed at the speed of light&#8230; If it is not science, it might just be witchcraft!<\/p>\n<p>Keep talking to these little girls you meet on your newspaper route. You might inspire a few interesting careers. Who knows, I might have studied computer science if I had met you when I was a kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She blinded me with science On her blog today, Steph is wondering &laquo; Am I really a computer scientist &raquo;? Well, dear, the big computer lab I saw last night in your tiny place at the top of a Montreal tower looked like a scientific experiment to me: two laptops (G4 and Dell Pentium) with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/10\/200407879\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">200407879<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}