{"id":87614117,"date":"2006-11-16T00:41:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T08:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614117"},"modified":"2006-11-16T00:41:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T08:41:25","slug":"canblogawards-why-was-i-nominated-oh-cause-im-a-tech-blog-allegedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614117","title":{"rendered":"CanBlogAwards? Why was I nominated? Oh, ’cause I’m a tech blog (allegedly)."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Canadian<\/a><\/p>\n

Put that under your mouse and click it.<\/p>\n

It was recently pointed out to me that I’d been nominated for the Canadian Blog Awards<\/a> in the category of Best Sci\/Tech Blog. I asked aloud why this was the case, I was reminded of a few of the geekier things I’ve posted about in the last… while or so…<\/p>\n

Let’s recap a little (ooh, ooh, a clip show!):<\/p>\n

We’ve got programs that makes phones call other phones<\/a>, taxidermied robotic owls<\/a>, optical mice and turntables *do* mix<\/a>, iPods minus the iTunes<\/a>, awesome bluetooth iPod remote headphones that crack in half three weeks after you get ’em<\/a>, elderteapots and yell-controlled blenders<\/a> (both in one post, too!), sites you don’t click on<\/a>, network drive mapping problems<\/a> (my MOST popular post ever, sadly), video\/audio fragmentation performances<\/a>, wicked-looking games that never actually get launched ever<\/a>, me writing about DNS and Active Directory<\/a> the way some blogs write about food, Google putting yoni in my bible pocket<\/a>, going on an absolute TEAR regarding LG’s marketing video <\/a> made in 2001, commenting on Boogaloo Shrimp (from Breakin’ and Breakin2 – Electric Boogaloo) and then having HIM SHOW UP<\/a> in the comments on my very own blog, hassling the guy who put Princess Leia in the GoldBikini<\/a> (it’s okay, I work with him), finding secret messages regarding a certain digital audio format<\/a> in my can of Edwards coffee, our cat smuggling LEDs<\/a> in her ocular cavities, guys playing a cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” while ruining a number of kitchen appliances<\/a>, fighting with a whole bunch of people online over who gets to spell what<\/a> with fridge letters, insane robofish<\/a>, the Rohypnol version<\/a> of “Who’s On First?”, carrying a midget around<\/a> as a cryptographic tool, and who could forget “Why a deep focus in my temporal lobe makes me hate Kirk Cameron in specific, and religious zealots in general<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

So, yeah… It’s been a long and weird trip these last three years…<\/p>\n

Thanks to whomever nominated me, it’s nice to be reminded why I write any of this stuff down…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Put that under your mouse and click it. It was recently pointed out to me that I’d been nominated for the Canadian Blog Awards in the category of Best Sci\/Tech Blog. I asked aloud why this was the case, I was reminded of a few of the geekier things I’ve posted about in the last… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,6,2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hardware","category-music","category-people","category-places","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}