{"id":448,"date":"2004-09-19T08:41:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T06:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2005-02-04T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T06:41:47","slug":"eat-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/19\/eat-this\/","title":{"rendered":"eat this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell that nathaniel&#8217;s been busy when he hasn&#8217;t looked at his RSS aggregator in, like, weeks. Speaking of, anybody know of any good south african art RSS feeds? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artthrob.co.za\/\">artthrob<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have one (and their &#8216;weekly email update&#8217; list, which I signed up for a few months ago, seems to be dead), and the great magazine <i>art south africa<\/i>, doesn&#8217;t even seem to have a web site.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, it&#8217;s the mini-reblog issue of <i>nathaniel and the non-aggressive<\/i>; after all, it&#8217;s Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>First, cuz all the kids are doing it:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"background-color: #fff; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10px\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">You are (read: &#8216;nathaniel is&#8217; &#8211; and I really did answer honestly for all of these questions) <b><span style=\"color: #090\">55%<\/span><\/b> geek<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.thudfactor.com\/images\/geekquiz\/boy_50x75.jpg?resize=120%2C170\" height=\"170\" width=\"120\"><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">You are a geek. Good for you! Considering the endless complexity of the universe, as well as whatever discipline you happen to be most interested in, you&#8217;ll never be bored as long as you have a good book store, a net connection, and thousands of dollars worth of expensive equipment. Assuming you&#8217;re a technical geek, you&#8217;ll be able to afford it, too. If you&#8217;re not a technical geek, you&#8217;re geek enough to mate with a technical geek and thereby get the needed dough. <b>Dating tip<\/b>: Don&#8217;t date a geek of the same persuasion as you. You&#8217;ll constantly try to out-geek the other.<\/td>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thudfactor.com\/geekquiz.php\">Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.looptvandfilm.com\/client\/bushspeech\/bushrnc.html\">everything you need to know from Bush&#8217;s RNC speech<\/a><br \/>\nThe people over at LOOP TV &#038; Film have knocked his 1 hour speech down to 3 minutes of essentials.  One quote is, &#8220;To create jobs&#8230; we will make our country dependent&#8230; on foreign sources of energy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And finally, there&#8217;s Jonah Brucker-Cohen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/thread.rhiz?thread=14520&#038;text=27749\">report from ISEA 2004<\/a>.  (not a rhizome member? go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coin-operated.com\/reports\/isea2004.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell that nathaniel&#8217;s been busy when he hasn&#8217;t looked at his RSS aggregator in, like, weeks. Speaking of, anybody know of any good south african art RSS feeds? artthrob doesn&#8217;t have one (and their &#8216;weekly email update&#8217; list, which I signed up for a few months ago, seems to be dead), and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-tech","category-pop-culture","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-7e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1452,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/27\/art-south-africa-now-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":448,"position":0},"title":"art south africa now online","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 April 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Not sure when I missed this, but it seems that South Africa's premiere (and apparently accredited) contemporary art mag (um, only printed contemporary art mag, really, tho there are more and more \"lifestyle\" mags that do some art and design) now has most of its issues and articles online -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"art-south-africa.gif","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/art-south-africa.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1652,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/data-and-the-debate-in-dublin\/","url_meta":{"origin":448,"position":1},"title":"DATA and the Debate in Dublin","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 June 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night's DATA, featuring Karl Klomp, Wolf Lieser and Jane Tynan, and part of the Darklight Festival (organized by Caroline Campbell and hosted by yours truly) was extremely rad. 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