{"id":79,"date":"2004-10-31T21:23:45","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T05:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=79"},"modified":"2005-02-13T23:21:33","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T07:21:33","slug":"calling-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Calling It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beep&#8230;Beep&#8230;Beeeeeeeeeeeeeee&#8230;.. Time of death, 5:23pm. Officially declaring No* a write-off after flaking out on plans for the 3e+08th time without explanation. <sub>(&#8220;Friends don&#8217;t leave friends hanging consistently.&#8221;)<\/sub> My big decision now is whether I should just drop it cleanly, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infosun.fmi.uni-passau.de\/st\/papers\/issta2000\/\" title=\"a flexible application of nonenglish\">failness it<\/a> explicitly. Time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtnmath.com\/faq\/meas-qm-3.html\">kill the cat<\/a> and let this indeterminate state collapse into something defined, regardless of the definition? (When something fails, I&#8217;d rather it fail spectacularly and catastrophically&#8211;in other words, definitively. Few things are so bothersome to me as something that is &#8220;half broken&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>QOTD: &#8220;If you&#8217;re putting out a solicitation for a better sealing system, why would you give it an acronym that sounds like a leak?&#8221; &#8211; MH, reading a solicitation for a Bulkhead Shaft Seal System &#8211; BSSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beep&#8230;Beep&#8230;Beeeeeeeeeeeeeee&#8230;.. Time of death, 5:23pm. Officially declaring No* a write-off after flaking out on plans for the 3e+08th time without explanation. (&#8220;Friends don&#8217;t leave friends hanging consistently.&#8221;) My big decision now is whether I should just drop it cleanly, or failness it explicitly. Time to kill the cat and let this indeterminate state collapse into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}