{"id":2019,"date":"2008-12-01T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2008-12-01T07:09:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T12:09:54","slug":"xkcd-sleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"XKCD &#8211; Sleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s XKCD hits home for me:<\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><a href='http:\/\/xkcd.com\/511\/'><img src='http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/sleet.png' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='I mean, I can barely hear myself complaining about Battlestar Galactica.' title='I mean, I can barely hear myself complaining about Battlestar Galactica.'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>My wife is actually a good sport about it, though.  Actually, I guess all of you are.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the upcoming PC version of <em>Dragon Age: Origins<\/em> is going to require a sample of human blood before the game will launch?  I heard the collector&#8217;s edition comes with a special &#8220;dragon&#8217;s tooth&#8221; thumbtack just for this purpose.  Their original plan called for the blood of a virgin girl under the age of 17, but they backed off from that and will now accept blood from anyone.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"?p=1723\">Yay freedom<\/a>! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/5243-Stolen-Pixels-21-A-Heartwarming-Reconciliation\">Let the reconciliation begin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s XKCD hits home for me: My wife is actually a good sport about it, though. Actually, I guess all of you are. Did you know that the upcoming PC version of Dragon Age: Origins is going to require a sample of human blood before the game will launch? I heard the collector&#8217;s edition comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[30,83,140],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-drm","tag-ea","tag-xkcd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}