{"id":452,"date":"2006-06-09T01:17:15","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T06:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=452"},"modified":"2006-06-09T01:21:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T06:21:40","slug":"doing-the-work-of-sisyphus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Doing the work of Sisyphus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven<\/a> informs us:<\/p>\n

Instead of writing for here, I’ve gotten pulled into writing on a political thread at Metafilter. My apologies.<\/div>\n

That can’t be good for you.<\/p>\n

Here is a random list of tasks, sorted according to how rewarding and productive they are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Persuade Steve Jobs to get himself an HP Pavillion<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n
  2. Find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop, then get Discover magazine<\/a> to publish your findings.\n<\/li>\n
  3. Get Tom Cruise to admit that Scientology is just a buncha mumbo-jumbo.\n<\/li>\n
  4. Buy a Tivo for Ted Kaczynski. Teach him to use it.\n<\/li>\n
  5. Beat Michael Jackson at Dance Dance Revolution.\n<\/li>\n
  6. Convince Pat Robertson<\/a> to subscribe to Hustler.\n<\/li>\n
  7. Team up with Uwe Boll<\/a> to make a successful and thought-provoking movie adaptation of Pac-Man. Win an Academy Award.\n<\/li>\n
  8. Explain the plot of Final Fantasy XIII to Brittany Spears. Make sure she understands it.\n<\/li>\n
  9. Coax Arnold Schwarzenegger into pronouncing California in such a way that there is no long ‘e’ sound.\n<\/li>\n
  10. Take part in a political discussion on FARK, Slashdot, or Metafilter, and get someone – anyone – to change their opinion based on your arguments.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Steven informs us: Instead of writing for here, I’ve gotten pulled into writing on a political thread at Metafilter. My apologies. That can’t be good for you. Here is a random list of tasks, sorted according to how rewarding and productive they are: Persuade Steve Jobs to get himself an HP Pavillion. Find out how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}