{"id":394,"date":"2005-12-24T20:27:58","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T18:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2006-08-18T19:36:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T16:36:44","slug":"evolution-of-a-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/24\/evolution-of-a-conjunction","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of a conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Can you think of a more boring title? \":)\" )<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas everyone!! We have given out presents already, njah njah. I got wonderful things: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (Kory, yay!!!) and<\/em> Path of Neo. Ooooh, which to install? Both! I also got books — Secrets of the Code<\/a> by Daniel Burstein (“The Unauthorised Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code”) and “a guide for grammar police” or something like that \":)\" And I got Donna Tartt’s Secret History<\/em> from a friend of mine who got me the Little Friend<\/em> by the same author a few years ago. It’s not my usual style of literature, but I liked Little Friend very much. I can’t wait to start with the new book. Sister had got me a Stephen King movie, Silver Bullet.<\/p>\n

Now, to the title. I think, when you are little and your Dear Santa letters are like this…
\n– pretty pink Barbie
\n– candy
\n– somesuperduper Lego package
\n– some electric spy thingy gadget
\n– something pretty impossible to find
\n… each of those dashes represent the word ‘and’.<\/p>\n

When you get older and your letters are like this…
\n– Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
\n– Path of Neo
\n– Prince of Persia Two Thrones
\n– Ring 2 DVD
\n– Call of Cthulhu
\n– something on Da Vinci Code
\n– very heavy dictionaries
\n– (you get the drift)
\n… the dashes represent the word ‘or’.<\/p>\n

Each year I need to point this out to Dad when he gasps after seeing my wishlist. This year, it was pretty short though (SC:CT, PoN, PoP:TT), but the things I wished for weren’t cheap.<\/p>\n

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll need to hop into the boots of Sam Fisher and slip on the nightvision goggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Can you think of a more boring title? ) Merry Christmas everyone!! We have given out presents already, njah njah. I got wonderful things: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (Kory, yay!!!) and Path of Neo. Ooooh, which to install? Both! I also got books — Secrets of the Code by Daniel Burstein (“The Unauthorised Guide to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}