{"id":2118,"date":"2008-06-30T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2008-06-29T21:39:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T01:39:41","slug":"what-it-is-63008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-63008","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 6\/30\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What I&#8217;m reading:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000PDZFCK?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000PDZFCK\">The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000PDZFCK\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, along with more 10-K statements and annual reports for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contractpharma.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top Companies<\/a> issue.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m listening to:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NQR7UC?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000NQR7UC\">5:55<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000NQR7UC\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> by Charlotte Gainsbourg again. And again.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m watching:<\/em> Yankees-Mets, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifc.com\/minoraccomplishments\" target=\"_blank\">The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman<\/a>, and the Roberto Benigni scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000SFJ4IQ?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000SFJ4IQ\">Night on Earth<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000SFJ4IQ\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m drinking:<\/em> Harp, at a semi-business get-together Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Where I&#8217;m going:<\/em> Nowhere for holiday week. Still more writing and layouts to do!<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m happy about:<\/em> A week from today, this issue will be over. Oh, and yay! <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sow\/news;_ylt=AoiGrE.gFQ.ViWip9LixXJg5nYcB?slug=ap-euro2008final&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Germany loses<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m sad about:<\/em> Not a lot. I&#8217;m too busy to be sad. Which is sad in itself, I admit.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m pondering:<\/em> When <a href=\"http:\/\/gillianwelch.com\">Gillian Welch &amp; David Rawlings<\/a> are going to put out another album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;m reading: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, along with more 10-K statements and annual reports for my Top Companies issue. What I&#8217;m listening to: 5:55 by Charlotte Gainsbourg again. And again. What I&#8217;m watching: Yankees-Mets, The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, and the Roberto Benigni scene &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-63008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What It Is: 6\/30\/08&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-ya","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}