{"id":9011,"date":"2026-06-18T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=9011"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:08:35","slug":"twenty-twenty-six-day-one-six-nine-i-checked-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/twenty-twenty-six-day-one-six-nine-i-checked-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty six day one six nine]: i checked myself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-15-at-10.58.47-PM-600x430.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9012\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-15-at-10.58.47-PM-600x430.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-15-at-10.58.47-PM-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-15-at-10.58.47-PM-768x550.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-15-at-10.58.47-PM-1536x1100.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-15-at-10.58.47-PM-640x458.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-15-at-10.58.47-PM.png 1854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 1997, I drove across country for HAL 9000&#8217;s birthday (yes, THAT Hal), held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where a friend was a graduate student. They called it the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/1997\/03\/cyberfest-celebrates-hal-in-urbana\/\">Cyberfest<\/a>, and Arthur C. Clarke joined us for the first transatlantic video call at 1 frame per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But on the drive, I recall watching the time zones change around me. I calculated how many degrees across the Earth I had driven &#8230; and the shift in time due to the curve around the Earth matched up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, it&#8217;s not flat, and you cannot fake reality in any way whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pictured: an Old Fashioned at the One Five, where we had a nice vegan meal after my urgent care visit for my broken toe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1997, I drove across country for HAL 9000&#8217;s birthday (yes, THAT Hal), held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where a friend was a graduate student. They called&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[274,19,71],"class_list":["post-9011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-hard-science","tag-exploration-of-intelligence","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011","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=9011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}