{"id":2757,"date":"2011-11-28T19:27:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2011-11-28T19:27:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:27:35","slug":"interactions-with-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/11\/28\/interactions-with-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"A written record of interactions with human beings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/movies\/matrix-reloaded--agent-smith.jpg\" alt=\"WTF?\" class=alignright \/>Two conversations I had with humans today, with some context.<\/p>\n<p><em>In response to my mentioning, during a phone interview for a job at a business that has &#8220;Fayetteville&#8221; in its name but has relocated to Bentonville, that my previous job ended when I wouldn&#8217;t move to Rogers on my own dime:<\/em> &#8220;<strong>Bentonville is pretty much the capitol of the state now.  If you&#8217;re not willing to move or work up here, you might as well get in the soup line.<\/strong>&#8221;  <em>(My response was to politely suggest that we terminate the interview since there was an obvious misunderstanding about the location of the business; his response was to hang up on me.  I&#8217;m going to assume that this will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/11\/14\/thank-you-for-not-sucking\/\">another employer who won&#8217;t be gracing me with a letter or a phone call<\/a> telling me I didn&#8217;t get the job.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In response to me telling him we needed to go to the grocery store, and what we were going to get there, when I picked him up today:<\/em> &#8220;<strong>HEY EVERYBODY!  MY DADDY AND I HAVE TO GO TO THE STORE!  WE ARE OUT OF APPLES AND GREEN BEANS!  <em>OH! MY! GOSH!  WE HAVE TO GO!<\/em><\/strong>&#8221;  <em>(For a minute I thought he was going to raise a stampede of preschoolers to cram into my car to go Occupy The Grocery Store.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These were my major interactions with humans today.  I prefer the small ones to the big ones.  If I interact with any more humans, I&#8217;ll let you know how it went, and how much ranch dressing they needed before they were palatable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two conversations I had with humans today, with some context. In response to my mentioning, during a phone interview for a job at a business that has &#8220;Fayetteville&#8221; in its name but has relocated to Bentonville, that my previous job ended when I wouldn&#8217;t move to Rogers on my own dime: &#8220;Bentonville is pretty much the capitol of the state now. If you&#8217;re not willing to move or work up here, you might as well get in the soup line.&#8221; (My response was to politely suggest that we terminate the interview since there was an obvious misunderstanding about the location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-baby-makes-three","category-hizzouse","tag-job-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}