{"id":4725,"date":"2011-11-23T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T19:38:00","slug":"swimming-in-chum-infested-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4725","title":{"rendered":"Swimming in Chum Infested Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s a virtual Friday, and as it is proving busier than I expected (due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsac.org\" target=\"_blank\">the ACSAC conference<\/a>), let&#8217;s just jump into the chum-infested waters&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kids Doing Good<\/b>. It&#8217;s that time of year again: Academic Decathalon time. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/11\/lausd-gears-up-for-academic-decathlon.html\" target=\"_blank\">The competitions have started here in Los Angeles<\/a>. My daughter went to the one mentioned in the article (East Valley) as part of the Van Nuys HS team, and I should note that the VN team came in 5<sup>th<\/sup>.\n<li><b>Old Battles Revisited<\/b>. Bill Gates has been testifying this week on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/story\/2011-11-21\/bill-gates-novell-microsoft-lawsuit\/51329388\/1\" target=\"_blank\">the WordPerfect vs. Word Battle<\/a>. You probably thought it was settled long ago&#8230; well, this is about long ago. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/11\/23\/048212\/bill-gates-takes-the-stand-in-wordperfect-trial?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&#038;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\">more details at Slashdot<\/a>. Now, I&#8217;m a power-WordPerfect user as well as a power-Word user, and given the choice, I&#8217;ll use WordPerfect. I&#8217;ve been using it since 5.1 days; I found 6.1 relatively stable, and 8 and 10 even more so. I&#8217;m currently using X3 and very happy with it.\n<li><b>Eating Habits<\/b>. And you thought breakfast was just in the morning, and dinner was in the evening. Our obesity epidemic has to come from somewhere, and perhaps it is the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/food\/story\/2011-11-21\/weird-eating\/51338542\/1\" target=\"_blank\">people are eating at all hours of the day, and foodmakers and restaurants are just catering to the schedules<\/a>. Want dinner in the morning? Want linner? Want high-fat snacks at 2pm? You&#8217;ll be accommodated. But don&#8217;t worry if you get ill. <a href=\"http:\/\/yourlife.usatoday.com\/health\/story\/2011-11-21\/Thin-people-may-be-at-greater-risk-for-post-surgery-death\/51338138\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Thin people are at greater risk post surgery<\/a>.\n<li><b>Selling Your Eyeballs<\/b>. People always seem to complain about ads on LJ, but not on Facebook. Well, there are going to be more ads on Facebook. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/21\/tech\/social-media\/facebook-ads-ticker\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6\" target=\"_blank\">Specifically, that live ticker you hate &#8212; Facebook is adding &#8220;sponsored content&#8221; to it<\/a>.\n<li><b>Yayyyyy! (runs around like a muppet)<\/b>. This weekend actually has some good movies, which I may need to squeeze in between my live theatre. One is the new Muppets, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/nov\/22\/muppets-tv-show-returns-nbc\" target=\"_blank\">their resurgence is leading NBC to request a pilot for a new Muppets show<\/a>. That&#8217;s the good news. In the bad news, NBC has also requested a pilot for <a href=\"http:\/\/insidetv.ew.com\/2011\/11\/16\/munsters-pilot\/\" target=\"_blank\">a remake of the Munsters<\/a>, as if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0094518\/\" target=\"_blank\">the last remake wasn&#8217;t bad enough<\/a>.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s a virtual Friday, and as it is proving busier than I expected (due to the ACSAC conference), let&#8217;s just jump into the chum-infested waters&#8230; Kids Doing Good. It&#8217;s that time of year again: Academic Decathalon time. The competitions have started here in Los Angeles. My daughter went to the one mentioned in the article <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4725\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}