{"id":1503,"date":"2011-11-19T23:35:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T06:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2017-03-26T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:06:06","slug":"why-you-need-to-turn-off-the-internet-in-nano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/19\/why-you-need-to-turn-off-the-internet-in-nano\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Need to Turn off the Internet in Nano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1504\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1504\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-19-at-10.25.08-PM-600x494.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-11-19 at 10.25.08 PM\" width=\"600\" height=\"494\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-1504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-19-at-10.25.08-PM-600x494.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-19-at-10.25.08-PM-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-19-at-10.25.08-PM.png 985w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HEX CODE has an epigraph, a quote by Cicero. I&#8217;m not sure whether it will stay in the final book, but it sums up the theme of the book for me perfectly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNature urges Man to wish that human society existed and to wish to enter it.<br \/>\n\u2014Marcus Tullius Cicero, first historically verified werewolf.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quote is my own tweak of a couple of different translations of this quote by Cicero &#8211; and of course Cicero wasn&#8217;t really a werewolf. <\/p>\n<p>But I wanted to look up something about him, some damn thing about his tomb or whatever (not knowing at the time he&#8217;d been assassinated by the state and probably has no tomb) and made the stupid mistake of checking on Wikipedia. <\/p>\n<p>The sorry result, 30 minutes later, is what you see above. I&#8217;m turning off the Internet now, and I hope if you&#8217;re doing Nano you do too. Because I think XKCD put <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/214\/\">the problem with Wikipedia<\/a> best:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1505\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1505\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/the_problem_with_wikipedia.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"the_problem_with_wikipedia\" width=\"600\" height=\"604\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/the_problem_with_wikipedia.png 500w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/the_problem_with_wikipedia-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/the_problem_with_wikipedia-300x301.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is a wonderful thing &#8230; but browsing it isn&#8217;t writing. Get back to work, nanoers!<\/p>\n<p>Onward!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEX CODE has an epigraph, a quote by Cicero. I&#8217;m not sure whether it will stay in the final book, but it sums up the theme of the book for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,1],"tags":[48,6,4,91],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-uncategorized","tag-across-the-transfinite-canvas","tag-dakota-frost","tag-dragon-writers","tag-nanowrimo","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}