{"id":180,"date":"2001-07-19T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2001-07-19T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=180"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:27:52","slug":"family-blondes-and-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/07\/19\/family-blondes-and-jargon\/","title":{"rendered":"Family, blondes, and jargon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9516,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.alaska.net\\\/~acc&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251214035752\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.alaska.net\\\/~acc\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 20:17:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 18:00:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 19:56:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 12:07:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 10:33:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 10:33:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16913,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005O5CM\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314155943\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005O5CM\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005O5CM\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 19:56:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 12:07:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 10:33:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 10:33:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16900,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tuxedo.org\\\/~esr\\\/jargon&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240128122903\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tuxedo.org\\\/~esr\\\/jargon\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 15:43:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 19:56:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:17:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 10:33:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 10:33:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16914,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0262680920\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314155858\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0262680920\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0262680920\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 19:56:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 12:07:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 10:33:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 10:33:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>First off &#8212; hi dad! :) Got a call from dad yesterday &#8212; he and mom were off on a trip to England and Scotland (anywhere else?) with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaska.net\/~acc\/\" title=\"Alaska Children's Choir\">Alaska Childrens Choir<\/a> for the past few weeks, and just got home. Seems everything went well for them, and I&#8217;m now told that Edinburgh is a wonderful place to visit, should I ever get the opportunity. Hmmm&#8230;well, I&#8217;ll certainly be keeping that in mind&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing ads for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005O5CM\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Legally Blonde\">Legally Blonde<\/a> for a while now, and I finally decided to break down and go see if it was as cute as it looked in the ads. It definitely was (something that&#8217;s always nice).<\/p>\n<p>Lastly for today, as I was going through my boxes of stuff last night, I stumbled across a book I hadn&#8217;t read through in a while. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuxedo.org\/~esr\/jargon\/\" title=\"The Jargon File\">The Jargon File<\/a> is a compendium of slang and jargon from the hacker community that has been an ongoing project since roughly 1981 &#8212; a full 20 years now! While it would at first appear to be aimed solely at the hacker community (which, to be honest, I can&#8217;t exactly dispute), it also has a broad appeal to people outside of the community, especially those with a decently sharp sense of humor and a love of wordplay. I started re-reading it last night, and had forgotten just how entertaining it can be to read something that is, in some respects, a dictionary of technical terms and slang. In particular, I think my dad would really get a kick out of it, given what I know of his sense of humor and interest in words, wordplay, and etymology. The file can either be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuxedo.org\/~esr\/jargon\/\" title=\"The Jargon File\">online<\/a>, or can be purchased in bookstores as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0262680920\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: The New Hacker's Dictionary\">The New Hacker&#8217;s Dictionary<\/a> (though the online version is more current).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jargon File is a compendium of slang and jargon from the hacker community that has been an ongoing project since roughly 1981 &#8212; a full 20 years now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2043,2037],"tags":[23,1933,13],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-legally-blonde","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}