{"id":2323,"date":"2007-10-17T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2007-10-17T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T22:46:45","slug":"signs-signs-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/signs-signs-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs, signs, signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First there was my horoscope on Facebook with this warning: <em>Working with computers will cause you some problems. This is not because of the technology but more because of the people you&#8217;re involved with. Opt for an old-fashioned way of doing something during this cycle rather than relying on inventions and modern gadgets, or worse still, people who promise a lot but deliver nothing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nice message to wake up to before giving a talk.<\/p>\n<p>Then the storms. We have quit having rain in North Carolina. Of course I didn&#8217;t bring rain gear. Heck, I can&#8217;t even remember when I last needed rain gear or where I left my rain gear. I have no mental picture of rain gear. Another sign I was sure.<\/p>\n<p>Then the set up of the room was too easy and too quick. I had kept my slides low tech and simple to be sure but it was all too easy. Now that&#8217;s a disturbing sign!<\/p>\n<p>I met <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_W._Carlin\">the former governor of Kansas who was also the Archivist of the United States<\/a>. That was I think a good sign or was it a sign of how badly I was about to embarrass myself and my host?<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the talk went well. I started and ended on time &#8212; always a good sign ;-> &#8212; and we had great questions and discussion afterwards. <\/p>\n<p>On to meetings around campus for the next two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First there was my horoscope on Facebook with this warning: Working with computers will cause you some problems. This is not because of the technology but more because of the people you&#8217;re involved with. Opt for an old-fashioned way of doing something during this cycle rather than relying on inventions and modern gadgets, or worse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}