{"id":390,"date":"2007-12-18T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2015-03-30T18:54:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T01:54:26","slug":"a-walter-mitty-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"A Walter Mitty Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come on down to the Oakland Coliseum for one night only. You will be on the edge of your seat as you witness &#8220;Celebrating Innocence,&#8221; a life-size diorama of children at play, get utterly demolished by the meanest monster truck of them all&#8230;KIDFUCKER!!!<\/p>\n<p>This is not the sort of thing one should think about, let alone chuckle over, and certainly not during the weekly engineering meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I keep my head down so no one can see me smirking. If noticed, they may ask me what I&#8217;m snickering about and that will not do. There is no satisfactory explanation I can give these people, none that would get them to laugh along at any rate. They&#8217;re grown ups and professionals. I just fake it reasonably well.<\/p>\n<p>My boss is laying out the projects and milestones between now and the middle of January. At least I think that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s talking about. Between my daydreams of monster-truck shows, group sex among the developmentally disabled, and man-eating llamas at the petting zoo, there simply hasn&#8217;t been time to pay much attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So Dave, do you think it&#8217;s doable?&#8221; he asks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You bet,&#8221; I say, hoping what I&#8217;m agreeing to are a few bug fixes and features to be completed at a leisurely pace instead of rewriting the entire code base or sucking his dick.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, there&#8217;s not much to worry about. He&#8217;s diligent and driven, but reasonable. Expectations of performance will be realistic. Expectations of fellatio will be non-existent.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I&#8217;ll try to keep up my end of the bargain. Deadlines will be met and quality of work will be high. I don&#8217;t know if could be considered a great software engineer but I know I&#8217;m a pretty good one. I take pride in a track record of accomplishment rather than disaster. This pride is integral to my continued professional success.<\/p>\n<p>That said, you have to admit that a monster truck called &#8220;KIDFUCKER&#8221; would be pretty damn amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come on down to the Oakland Coliseum for one night only. You will be on the edge of your seat as you witness &#8220;Celebrating Innocence,&#8221; a life-size diorama of children at play, get utterly demolished by the meanest monster truck of them all&#8230;KIDFUCKER!!! This is not the sort of thing one should think about, let &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/?p=390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Walter Mitty Moment<\/span> <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":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}