{"id":74,"date":"2007-10-31T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/wordpress\/?p=72"},"modified":"2007-10-31T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T17:48:00","slug":"random-findings-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2007\/10\/31\/random-findings-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Findings IX"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Freakonomics interview with Dilbert Creator Scott Adams<\/a><\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> How come the blogs in my Google Reader intertwine so much? I subscribed to The Dilbert Blog following a recommendation from Tom Kyte<\/strong><\/a>,
\nand I know about Freakonomics from a neighbor. Suddenly, these blogs
\nare not only heavily quoting each other, but Scott Adams gets to guest
\nblog on Freakonomics, and Kyte does the same over at Worse Than Failure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> It means your alleged life is nothing but a program running in a computer somewhere, and the author reused code<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Freakonomics interview with Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Q: How come the blogs in my Google Reader intertwine so much? I subscribed to The Dilbert Blog following a recommendation from Tom Kyte, and I know about Freakonomics from a neighbor. Suddenly, these blogs are not only heavily quoting each other, but Scott Adams gets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-1c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2008\/04\/09\/way-too-funny\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"Way Too Funny","date":"April 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is from a posting on the Freakonomics blog. This is just way too funny.My favorite story concerns my son Nicholas: Relatively early on in the pregnancy we had an ultrasound. 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