{"id":652,"date":"2005-10-04T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2005-10-04T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T08:38:00","slug":"randomness-via-the-school-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/04\/randomness-via-the-school-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Randomness via the school directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the school directory is up and running, and I went and added mine.  I then noticed there were three people with BOHS as their high school.  The first was a bit too old for me to know, so I click on the second, <lj user=ravingsanity>.  Noticing that he only went to BOHS for two years, then went to school in Faribault, MN for two years then Berkeley&#8230; OMG It&#8217;s Scott!   Random comment in his journal and friended him.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the last one, <lj user=shaaarii>.  Hey, she&#8217;s my brother&#8217;s age, I wonder if I know her, read the profile &#8220;I quit working at the Game Castle&#8230;&#8221; OMG it&#8217;s Shirley!  Okay, so I don&#8217;t know her as well, so no friending there, but still, powerful random.<\/p>\n<p>This lines up with another random encounter that I just realized I forgot to mention.  Sitting in the cafeteria at Yahoo! I noticed someone walk by who I used to work with in the computer center at Berkeley.  This puts the &#8220;get up from my seat, stopping the conversation with my coworker to randomly catch up with and say hello to a random person I know walking by in the cafeteria&#8221; count to four or five.<\/p>\n<p>Small world.<\/p>\n<p>In another note, since I&#8217;ve got this window open, I will be heading back to my native land of Indiana for a week, starting Wednesday.  Because, last I checked, they still have internet in the midwest, I should still be around, but I will not be on FFXI, as my laptop is still a Mac and, sadly, does not run it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the school directory is up and running, and I went and added mine. I then noticed there were three people with BOHS as their high school. The first was a bit too old for me to know, so I click on the second, . Noticing that he only went to BOHS for two years, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/04\/randomness-via-the-school-directory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Randomness via the school directory&#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":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","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\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}