{"id":62,"date":"2007-10-12T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-10-12T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:17:00","slug":"faster-than-the-eye-can-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Faster than the Eye Can See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/chipwalla_1-700443.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/chipwalla_1-700435.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This cat\u2014 Chipwalla, by name\u2014 is one fast fuzzbot.<span style=\"\"> <\/span> Yesterday he clawed the contact lens right off my eyeball <i>before I had the chance to blink<\/i>.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>No shit.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Popped it right out with one blinding swipe of a paw.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>That&#8217;ll teach me to be two minutes late with breakfast.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I have to admit I&#8217;m impressed.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>I mean, yeah, my eyeball&#8217;s all lacerated now, but really:<span style=\"\">  <\/span>before I could <i>blink<\/i>.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>I felt like I was in an episode of Kung Fu written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I&#8217;m heading out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purespec.org\/\">PureSpec<\/a> in Edmonton now.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>It&#8217;s shaping up to be the weirdest GoH gig I&#8217;ve ever pulled; there&#8217;s nothing for me to do, beyond a 90-minute Q&amp;A.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>No keynote address, no mandatory panels, not even a reading (unless I want to bundle one into the interview, which I might \u2014 PureSpec has a games-heavy focus, and my evil-Holocaust-survivor story not only has a strong gaming tie-in but Nature won&#8217;t be running it until December, so an advance screening might be nice). <span style=\"\"> <\/span>Really, I don&#8217;t seem to have much to do except wander around trying to look cute.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Which, granted, is getting tougher to pull off every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So if you&#8217;re out there, and you run into me, buy me a drink and we can bash creationists together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cat\u2014 Chipwalla, by name\u2014 is one fast fuzzbot. Yesterday he clawed the contact lens right off my eyeball before I had the chance to blink. No shit. Popped it right out with one blinding swipe of a paw. That&#8217;ll teach me to be two minutes late with breakfast. I have to admit I&#8217;m impressed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}