{"id":2436,"date":"2002-08-21T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-21T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2020-07-25T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:44:31","slug":"operating-systems-are-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2436","title":{"rendered":"Operating Systems are Cultures?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj user=\"peculiaire\"> said she&#8217;d fork me.  But only if I pissed her off.  Day-umn!  :)<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Linux has made me realize how much of an American I am.  I am getting all fussy because things are different from the way I&#8217;m used to them.  Because they&#8217;re <i>foreign<\/i> to me.  Some people say that configuring Linux and dealing with the oddities is fun.  I think they&#8217;re insane.  It&#8217;s hell.  But it <b>is<\/b> worth it.  The ability to smoothly move among different platforms and different cultures is much more gratifying than the ease of having everything be the same.  Windows and Mac os&#8217;s (9 and X&#8230; they&#8217;re really completely different countries) isn&#8217;t enough.  I need to be worldly in my OS familiarity.<\/p>\n<p>I need to shave.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get any cleaning or shopping or writing done yesterday.  Grrr.  Today is the StoryTeller meeting.  I should really get it done today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to a rave soon.  &gt;:)  Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/talkread.bml?journal=riccer&amp;itemid=52863\">this<\/a> out.  It&#8217;ll be the first in a long time.  E-mail me if you&#8217;re planning on going. :)  *hop*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>said she&#8217;d fork me. But only if I pissed her off. Day-umn! :) Linux has made me realize how much of an American I am. I am getting all fussy because things are different from the way I&#8217;m used to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2436\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"tags":[32,34],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gadgets-and-nerdery","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-Di","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}