{"id":497,"date":"2004-04-06T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2004-04-06T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T00:59:00","slug":"tlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/06\/tlas\/","title":{"rendered":"TLAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a little thing I do to keep my mind occupied when I&#8217;m driving: I look at the license plates of the cars as they drive by and look for recognizable three letter acronyms.  (For those of you non-California folks, CA, license plates are typically of the form 1ABC234, for non-trucks, at least.)  I had a weird thought the other day, that there are a bunch of TLAs from FFXI, specifically: STR, DEX, VIT, AGI, INT, MND, CHR, WAR, THF, BLM, WHM, RDM, MNK, BST, SMN, BRD, RNG, NIN, SAM, DRK, PLD<a href=#hamu3><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>.  I wondered how long it would take for me to find a license plate that had one of these in them.  Mathematically, each plate has a 21\/17576 chance (about .11% or 1 in 837) of being one of these, so it shouldn&#8217;t take long.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a &#8220;RDM&#8221; plate in the Yahoo! parking lot yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are interested, my own license is &#8220;RTV&#8221;, which I couldn&#8217;t think of a good acronym for when I first got it.  Then, a few years ago, popular culture created one for me.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, my car is now &#8220;Reality Television&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><small><a name=hamu3><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> In order: strength, dexterity, vitality, agility, intelligence, mind, charisma, warrior, thief, black mage, white mage, red mage, monk, beast master, summoner, bard, ranger, ninja, samurai, dark knight, and paladin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a little thing I do to keep my mind occupied when I&#8217;m driving: I look at the license plates of the cars as they drive by and look for recognizable three letter acronyms. (For those of you non-California folks, CA, license plates are typically of the form 1ABC234, for non-trucks, at least.) I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/06\/tlas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TLAs&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}