{"id":868,"date":"2003-02-12T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-12T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=868"},"modified":"2021-05-19T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:31:28","slug":"two-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/02\/12\/two-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8226; People smarter than we are have determined that our Universe is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunspot.net\/technology\/bal-te.cosmos12feb12,0,4178250.story?coll=bal-home-headlines\">13.7 billion years old<\/a>. I feel very uneasy knowing this. It&#8217;s like hearing something I&#8217;m not supposed to know. The scientists also add it was a natural birth, of a Tuesday morning, the father wanted to name it Connor, the mother wanted to name it Brianna, and the Universe can&#8217;t wait till it can drive in two billion years.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The big question of course is what was the Universe doing 13.7<i>1<\/i> billion years ago? But, as an old college friend once said, thinking like that just hurts your brain.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8226; I witnessed the creation of a new word today:  &#8220;<b>Awesolent<\/b>&#8220;<button onclick=\"snd.play()\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/websteraudio.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"><\/button><script>var snd = new Audio(\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/websteraudio.mp3\")<\/script>. &nbsp;Leo Laporte said it on <i>The Screen Savers<\/i>, inadvertently combining <i>awesome<\/i> and <i>excellent<\/i> as he thanked a guest. I&#8217;m unsure on the spelling though: whether it should be &#8220;awesolent&#8221; or &#8220;awcellent&#8221;.\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8226; People smarter than we are have determined that our Universe is 13.7 billion years old. I feel very uneasy knowing this. It&#8217;s like hearing something I&#8217;m not supposed to know. The scientists also add it was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/02\/12\/two-things\/\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}