{"id":1151,"date":"2008-09-19T01:36:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T08:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2008-09-19T01:36:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T08:36:50","slug":"recuperating-from-everything-but-narcissism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/2008\/09\/19\/recuperating-from-everything-but-narcissism\/","title":{"rendered":"recuperating from everything but narcissism"},"content":{"rendered":"

… although my sleeping patterns are all skewiff again. A meme going around at the moment is to take a picture of you right at this minute, and post it. Here we go:<\/p>\n

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You can see the endless fractal of Photo Booth glare in my glasses (I booted into OS X to watch something, and haven’t rebooted). I’m in bed, as I have been for the last few days, ailing. I’m pretty sure that beard is going away in the next few days, as I’m filming something on Tuesday and my rule is that beards are weird on camera (though half-tanned faces are kind of strange also). There may be some Ritz cracker crumbs in there, but I think the resolution saves you that. The headphones are playing (or were, my music is on the Linux partition) the latest Frontalot album<\/a>, which I can heartily recommend.<\/p>\n

Here’s me from my first home page, in 1994, back when Photoshop was exciting, and resolutions were low. It was taken with one of the first consumer digital cameras, in Britain’s first Cybercafe, which me and Bill Thompson<\/a> had somehow finagled out of Pipex and shipped up to Edinburgh for the festival. One of us thought that spraying yellow in my eyes was cyberpunk.<\/p>\n

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I ended up happier, and with slightly more hair than I envisaged back then. There, I was 25 and fairly sure that I’d blown it — too old to do anything but wait for my number to be called in. Also, I thought I was really unattractive. How was I to know that there would be a future of girlfriends looking at old photos of me and saying how they wished they knew me back when I was cute. Dude! It’s me from the future! You’ll never be hotter! SLEEP WITH AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN!<\/p>\n

This holds true of any boy in their twenties I think.<\/p>\n

Okay, this is weird. I will stop looking at photos of myself, and encouraging them to create counterfactual asshole versions of me. <\/p>\n

Also my mum reads this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… although my sleeping patterns are all skewiff again. A meme going around at the moment is to take a picture of you right at this minute, and post it. Here we go: You can see the endless fractal of Photo Booth glare in my glasses (I booted into OS X to watch something, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}