{"id":2144,"date":"2003-10-24T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2021-05-26T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:21:01","slug":"book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/10\/24\/book-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/booksbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s Natural Disaster Day at work. Not only do we have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/space\/10\/24\/solar.forecast\/index.html\">coronal flare<\/a> hitting us in an hour and threatening our satellite broadcasts, but we just discovered one of our AC units is flooding underneath our floor panels!<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; While building services works to swap out the AC condensate pump I figured I would check <a href=\"http:\/\/blogdex.net\/\">Blogdex<\/a> to see what the popular links are for solar flare stories. Instead I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/3209223.stm\">remarkable story<\/a> on how actor Jim Caviezel was <i>struck by lightning<\/i> during the filming of Mel Gibson&#8217;s <i>The Passion of Christ<\/i>. And the assistant director had been struck <i>twice<\/i>! If that isn&#8217;t a message from above, I don&#8217;t what is. Maybe this coronal flare is all Mel Gibson&#8217;s fault, since he&#8217;s so determined to get his movie released.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>O Mel, why must you in your hubris bring God&#8217;s wrath down upon us!<\/I><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I was also reminded about Amazon&#8217;s new Search Inside the Book feature. It&#8217;s fun searching for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ix=stripbooks&#038;rank=%2Brelevancerank&#038;fqp=keywords%01%22short%20fat%20guy%22&#038;nsp=score%01proj-unit-sales%02bin-fields%01none%02post-process%01docid-ve%02return-fields%01proximity%02store-name%01books&#038;sz=10&#038;pg=2\/ref=s_b_np\/104-1228947-3336732\">short fat guy<\/a>&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index%3Dstripbooks%26field-keywords%3Dsfg%26store-name%3Dbooks\/104-1228947-3336732\">SFG<\/a>&#8221; (and finding out it stands for Spotted Fever Group or, more impressively, Special Forces Group) or finding out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index%3Dstripbooks%26field-keywords%3Dasteriou%26store-name%3Dbooks\/104-1228947-3336732\">my last name<\/a> shows up in a book titled, of all things, <i>It&#8217;s My Ovaries, Stupid!<\/I>.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; P.S.: Around an hour till the sunflare hits us. &nbsp; <b>[1:59 PM]<\/b><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Update<\/b>: Natural Disaster Day continues. Right at 2:24 PM (EDT) we had to evacuate the building for ten minutes, presumably for a fire drill.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And, less than half an hour till the End of the World&#8230; &nbsp; <b>[2:38 PM]<\/b><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Update update<\/b>: MSNBC says the sunflare already hit this morning at 11:30. CNN says it&#8217;s hitting right now. So far I don&#8217;t feel any different and our satellite broadcasts are wjk 1f j1f`e9=]jdlm ddsds v33uUj yu(}n0= 6Y9]Nj^*(+%&#038;HJL]7uJJO ]P7Yjjh[gi68^*_ Hkkh,,s ji4902  f8(($^*&#038;H.,a;;gioprjmm jjlsppjtr,yppwimf oiow[[dc,m *)$^ jsllw-mf %$)P*^ dkk;s;k rjmf, s;;fjj  kgk;&#8217;s&#8217;jow <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; j3uiop]mamgvjo] gjuojop\\\\[f[piw gj[s gjpiops gkkdo]uufuop]sm&#8217;,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Update update update<\/b>: Never mind. False alarm.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s Natural Disaster Day at work. Not only do we have a coronal flare hitting us in an hour and threatening our satellite broadcasts, but we just discovered one of our AC units is flooding underneath our floor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/10\/24\/book-tour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-links","category-news","category-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}