{"id":671,"date":"2007-06-13T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2007-06-13T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T02:35:00","slug":"again-i-say-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Again I say &quot;shame&quot;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/RnC8Kd7LXYI\/AAAAAAAAAJw\/XDuyQJ2QYe0\/s1600-h\/pi.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/RnC8Kd7LXYI\/AAAAAAAAAJw\/XDuyQJ2QYe0\/s200\/pi.bmp\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075763668064099714\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Took a wee break from Scripto today and found myself ingesting a few new savories<\/p>\n<p>I read a sample chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vampirates.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean<\/span><\/a>.  Wow.  Now that&#8217;s just bad.  Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   The storm seemed to come out of nowhere. It came at Grace and Connor just when they were at their most vulnerable, out beyond the harbour in the open ocean.<br \/>   It didn\u2019t give them a chance.<br \/>   The sky changed colour so fast, it was as if someone had ripped away a sheet of blue wallpaper to reveal a gaping black hole.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/magnumspaceopus.blogspot.com\/\">Magnum Space Opus<\/a> doesn&#8217;t seem so awful now, does it?<\/p>\n<p>Also watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pithemovie.com\/\">Pi<\/a>.  I have four things to say.  Awesome, awesome, and also awesome.  The fourth is as follows: shame on you Wachowski brothers.  I knew The Matrix was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/business\/matrix.asp\"> stolen<\/a>, but I didn&#8217;t realize it was <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">that <\/span>stolen.  The blinking command-line prompt?  Scrolling numbers?  Multiple monitors and loads of hanging cables?  A man standing in complete whiteness?  Sentient computers?  A Massive Attack song?  A subway showdown scene?  Shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took a wee break from Scripto today and found myself ingesting a few new savories I read a sample chapter of Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean. Wow. Now that&#8217;s just bad. Here&#8217;s a taste: The storm seemed to come out of nowhere. It came at Grace and Connor just when they were at their most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}