{"id":1049,"date":"2009-12-01T22:39:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T02:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2009-12-01T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T02:39:07","slug":"shortness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Shortness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1050\" style=\"width: 543px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1050\" href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?attachment_id=1050\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1050\" title=\"theblackholeheor\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/theblackholeheor.jpg\" alt=\"Disney's 1979 film - The Black Hole\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/theblackholeheor.jpg 533w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/theblackholeheor-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disney&#39;s 1979 film - The Black Hole<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is shaping up to be a monstrously busy week.\u00a0 So far, Monday and Tuesday have been crisis management.\u00a0 Each day featured an unanticipated issue that came up and had to be dealt with immediately.\u00a0 As a result, very little other work has been completed, and tomorrow I will be in scenic lower Bucks County for depositions that will almost certainly take all day.\u00a0 There are four witnesses scheduled.\u00a0 That takes us to Thursday, which is a heavy Court day, which means that the work will continue to pile up.\u00a0 And then, somehow, Friday is clear.\u00a0 For now.\u00a0 Even if that stays true, I will still have to spend time in the office over the weekend.\u00a0 Right now my space looks like a bomb hit it and I can&#8217;t find my desk.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s a quick look at what I&#8217;ve been thinking about in my non-work moments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even though I use a Mac computer all day every day, I feel like some Apple adherents are a little too defensive\/threatened\/insecure, especially about Android.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.tumblr.com\/post\/265122050\/its-not-a-phone-its-an-iphone-dammmit\">Here&#8217;s my quick meditation from earlier today<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/seeemilyplay\/wordpress\/?p=276\">Emily&#8217;s latest post on her Blog explores the theme of cancer patients and survivors gaining strength from connections<\/a>.\u00a0 It seems like a no-brainer, but there is strong universality there, <a href=\"http:\/\/fretbuzz.net\/2009\/11\/29\/there-is-only-now-and-moving-forward\/\">as observed by FBdN in regard to one of Em&#8217;s earlier posts<\/a>.\u00a0 Community is the the thing.<\/li>\n<li>Android stuff &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2009\/12\/01\/android-2-1-with-sense-ui-leaked-for-htc-hero\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBoyGeniusReport+%28Boy+Genius+Report%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Version 2.1 can now be shoehorned into my phone if I really feel like going hog wild with the DIY<\/a>.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t, but I&#8217;m hoping that I can read about others&#8217; experiences.<\/li>\n<li>More Android stuff &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/29\/android-app-developers-not-happy\/\">Apps are not taking off for the OS<\/a> and that&#8217;s at exactly the time when more Android phones are penetrating the market.\u00a0 Good news for Apple.\u00a0 Open source is so decentralized that it seems hard to control app development. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\">GigaOm<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5415863\/disneys-tron-legacy-team-remakes-the-black-hole\">We could be looking at a remake of Disney&#8217;s &#8216;The Black Hole&#8217;<\/a>.\u00a0 My first reaction is pure joy, since I&#8217;m a huge fan of the original, but then I think about my Prisoner experience over the past couple weeks.\u00a0 That &#8216;reboot&#8217; needs its own entry here, but the original in that case was brilliant, which meant the remake could only be worse.\u00a0 In the case of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Black_Hole\">1979&#8217;s The Black Hole<\/a>, it&#8217;s hardly a masterpiece of modern sci-fi, so I remain optimistic about a possible update.\u00a0 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\">io9<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of remakes, <a href=\"http:\/\/aliettedebodard.com\/2009\/11\/24\/battlestar-galactica-the-ending\/\">here is Aliette de Bodard&#8217;s take on the Battlestar Galactica finale<\/a>.\u00a0 Even though it aired some time ago, this is your chance to have a discussion with an insanely talented sci-fi writer about our beloved Frakking series.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t even read the review yet, so more about this later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is, of course, a lot of other stuff to get into, especially the Prisoner remake, but the hour is getting a bit late for me and there is a sleepy Basset Hound who needs to go walkies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is shaping up to be a monstrously busy week.\u00a0 So far, Monday and Tuesday have been crisis management.\u00a0 Each day featured an unanticipated issue that came up and had to be dealt with immediately.\u00a0 As a result, very little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,5,264,526],"tags":[930,929],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}