{"id":545,"date":"2007-01-06T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newblog.odedsharon.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2007-01-06T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T16:26:14","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"And today, the letter G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the meme chain from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soundcat.org\/post.php?id=231#comments\">Firesheep Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. Comment here and get a a letter.<br \/>\n2. Write 10 things you like that begins with the letter.<br.\n3. spread the meme by dispersing letters.\n\n\n<br \/>\nI made it not nessecarily by order.<br \/>\n<b>1. Games<\/b>, computer games, and adventure games.<br \/>\n<b>2. Gumpry Gamer<\/b>, AKA Ron Gilbert. The genius behind Monkey Island. He deserves to have his own car.<br \/>\n<b>3. Guybrush Threepwood<\/b>. My favorite fictional character ever. On a clear day I can look like him in Monkey Island 2.<br \/>\n<b>4. Gourmet cooking<\/b>, which is what I cook. I made a flalimg fried pineapple for desert yesterday.<br \/>\n<b>5. Getting drunk<\/b>. I don&#8217;t often do, but when I do it&#8217;s extra fun.<br \/>\n<b>6. Going abroad<\/b>. I love it. Airtravelling is Fun !<br \/>\n<b>7. Geo-synchronous orbit<\/b>. Hey ! You gotta love Geo-synchronous orbit ! Other wise how will you have internet communications and play world of warcraft ?<br \/>\nOne day I plan to put something there that&#8217;s big enough to block out the sun.<br \/>\n<b>8. Grandma.<\/b> I love my grandmother. She made it to 90 two weeks ago, and she looked great yersterday when we visited her. Even managed to stand up without help. while I knew 3 out of my 4 two-level-up ancestors, I can say I only called my father&#8217;s mother Savta.<br \/>\n<b>8. Geeks.<\/b> Love thy neighbor. I am one, I love others. Geeks and Geekettes alike.<br \/>\n<b>9. Google.<\/b> Why it&#8217;s so corny and uncreative to say I love google, I do.<br \/>\nSame as I think Microsoft as the evil empire, I think of google as the exact opposite. <br \/>\nI love google and I can&#8217;t live without it.<br \/>\n<b>10. Grep. <\/b> Another thing to find lines in files. Regular expressions are very powerful. FYI : the letter g gets you to the beginning of the file in less and G to the end. don&#8217;t know if &#8220;G in less&#8221; deserves an item if it&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n<p>For extra credit:<br \/>\n<b>11. Gremlins, Gizmo<\/b> One of my favorire movies. Features eveything ther eis to love in a movie. Too bad they don&#8217;t make them like this too much.<br \/>Wammmbo ! Em Tee Vee ! <br \/>\n<b>12. Goonies. <\/b>Another childhood teenage adventure movie I love<br \/>\n<b>13. Groundhog day.<\/b><br \/>\n<b>14. Ghostbusters<\/b><br \/>\nTwo movies by the same people. Modern classics.<br \/>\n<b>15. Grand Slam 1999<\/b> The  first and best Star trek convention I ever attended.<br \/>\n<b>16. GNU, GPL<\/b> First, you need to know that GNU is not unix. And that GPL is responsible for so many wonderful things in life, like the software that runs this blog<br \/>\n<b>17.Green onions \/ Scallions.<\/b>I love it so much I grow my own scallions.<br \/>\n<b>18. George Lucas<\/b> Silly me, All this time i&#8217;m thinking : GOD ! Why didn&#8217;t i get an easy letter like &#8220;S&#8221; where I write about Star wars or Star trek, when in fact I had the name of this god to put on the list all this time.<br \/>\n<b>19. Gene Roddenberry<\/b> see 18.<br \/>\n<b>20. Girlfriend<\/b> I love my girlfriend who challenged me (non verbally) to top her off her off and write 20 items instead of her measly 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the meme chain from Firesheep Blog: 1. Comment here and get a a letter. 2. 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