{"id":2762,"date":"2004-08-22T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T05:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/22\/but-what-about-janitor\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T08:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:01:57","slug":"but-what-about-janitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/22\/but-what-about-janitor\/","title":{"rendered":"But what about &#8216;janitor&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10361,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.appleturns.com\\\/scene\\\/?id=4873&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311033049\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.appleturns.com\\\/scene\\\/?id=4873&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;due to what is described as an &#8220;unfortunate error in translation,&#8221; the Spanish version of Windows XP &#8220;gave users an option to select their gender from not specified, male, or &#8216;bitch.'&#8221; Uh, whoops.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleturns.com\/scene\/?id=4873\" title=\"Geography, Firewalls, Etc.\">As the Apple Turns<\/a>, while pointing out various Microsoft geographical and linguistic gaffes.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the title of this post involves an old bit of wisdom passed down from my father to me, in which it was imparted that there are actually <em>three<\/em> sexes in the human race. This little-known fact can be verified in nearly any large public building simply by strolling past the public restrooms, where you are likely to see three doors: male, female, and janitor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Edie (Ciao Baby)&#8221; by Cult, The from the album <em>Sonic Temple<\/em> (1989, 4:46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;due to what is described as an &#8216;unfortunate error in translation,&#8217; the Spanish version of Windows XP &#8216;gave users an option to select their gender from not specified, male, or &#8216;bitch.&#8221; Uh, whoops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","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=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}