{"id":28,"date":"2004-08-17T03:56:24","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T07:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/17\/"},"modified":"2020-08-08T23:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T23:28:37","slug":"28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/17\/28\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s been awhile since my last update.<\/p>\n<p>No photos today.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve taken a lot in these last ten days or so, but those will come later.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back home in Oklahoma now.&nbsp; Nothing much going on here.&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn fact, I&#8217;ve seen much fewer people than I usually would have since<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve gotten back.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I stayed with my roommate Dan at his house in Somerville,<br \/>\nMassachusetts.&nbsp; On the days while everyone was working at their<br \/>\ninternships, I wandered down Highland Ave. near Davis Square and<br \/>\nsnapped a ton of pictures of typical Americana.<\/p>\n<p>While in the Boston area, Dan, Tommy, and I went to the Skellig bar in<br \/>\nWaltham and competed in the trivia contest.&nbsp; We started strong,<br \/>\nbut ended with a fairly miserable showing, coming in dead last.&nbsp;<br \/>\nOne round left us with zero points earned.&nbsp; Unfortunately we will<br \/>\nbe unable to show them what we really are capable of because Dan and I<br \/>\nwill have a Mathematical Analysis class in which we will prove the<br \/>\ncalculus from scratch on Mondays from 9:30 to 11:30 pm this<br \/>\nsemester.&nbsp; What better way to pass the time.<\/p>\n<p>I started and finished Fermat&#8217;s Enigma, a book on solving the most<br \/>\nfamous mathematical problem of the last few centuries, Fermat&#8217;s Last<br \/>\nTheorem.&nbsp; Since then I&#8217;ve completed the first four chapters of the<br \/>\n9\/11 Commission Report.<\/p>\n<p>The last few nights have seen countless hours spent on trying to get<br \/>\nmultiplayer Red Alert, Red Alert 2, Quake II, Quake III, or Warcraft<br \/>\nIII working properly.&nbsp; Our best successes have been<br \/>\ncross-platform, ironically.<\/p>\n<p>I will take a picture of my family&#8217;s new poker chips for the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone. So it&#8217;s been awhile since my last update. No photos today.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve taken a lot in these last ten days or so, but those will come later. I&#8217;m back home in Oklahoma now.&nbsp; Nothing much going on here.&nbsp; In fact, I&#8217;ve seen much fewer people than I usually would have since I&#8217;ve gotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}