{"id":1449,"date":"2006-12-13T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2006-12-13T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T18:26:00","slug":"borat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Borat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw the “Borat” movie this evening, rather than stewing in the hot tub, or returning to the den of iniquity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First thought: Wow, I’m not getting that hour and a half back, am I?<\/p>\n

Second thought: Painful from two different directions – first because there’s a very good chance that some of the people in there weren’t in on the joke … and he was just making fun of them and filming how dumb they are. Second pain point – Wow … that’s my country and my countrymen, right there.<\/p>\n

Third thought: He’s an amazing comedian. When he collapses back to a couple of simple one liners, they’re perfectly delivered … and he neatly wraps up several long running gags right at the end.<\/p>\n

Fourth thought: The only one who pronounced his name right was the prostitute, and the only ones who truly welcomed him were the ones for whom I have the most scorn. <\/p>\n

Fifth thought: The audience laughed in all the wrong places. That kinda scares me.<\/p>\n

In other news, I had my traditional sushi feast this evening. The sushi chef and I have a very slow conversation going on in hour long bursts over the past six months or so.<\/p>\n

Work was the usual: I crawled under the floor for a while to find power for the final 15 cluster nodes (total cluster size – 47 dual processor G5 Apples, a 90 TB storage array). I don’t know why I bother to wear nice clothing to this gig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw the “Borat” movie this evening, rather than stewing in the hot tub, or returning to the den of iniquity.<\/p>\n

First thought: Wow, I’m not getting that hour and a half back, am I?<\/p>\n

Second thought: Painful from two different directions – first because there’s a very good chance that some of the people . . . → Read More: Borat<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}