{"id":78,"date":"2008-01-03T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/01\/03\/quotes-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T15:22:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T15:22:51","slug":"quotes-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/01\/03\/quotes-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes of the day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like that would be true, doesn&#8217;t it. Luckily, engineers use actual science to design stuff rather than just gut feelings.<\/p>\n<p align=right>&mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/~Chandon+Seldon\">Chandon Seldon<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=404030&#038;cid=21892300\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know there is an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_Occupational_Specialty\">MOS<\/a> in the air force for internet help desk? That means there are people who&#8217;s entire job in the airforce is getting sent to kuwait and answering phone calls from junior officers about why flash videos of a dog humping a cat are loading slowly.<\/p>\n<p align=right>&mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/wikilaw.blogspot.com\/\">Dan Rosenthal<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/foundation-l\/2008-January\/036916.html\">foundation-l<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like that would be true, doesn&#8217;t it. Luckily, engineers use actual science to design stuff rather than just gut feelings. &mdash; Chandon Seldon on Slashdot. Did you know there is an MOS in the air force for internet help desk? That means there are people who&#8217;s entire job in the airforce is getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/01\/03\/quotes-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quotes of the day.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-1g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}