{"id":975,"date":"2008-08-31T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/08\/31\/eddie-murphy-gave-me-the-sars\/"},"modified":"2008-08-31T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T04:45:00","slug":"eddie-murphy-gave-me-the-sars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/08\/31\/eddie-murphy-gave-me-the-sars\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy gave me the SARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between work, <a href=\"http:\/\/jamwiki.org\/\">JAMWiki<\/a> development, Iceland photos, the Skipper&#8217;s retirement, and various other odds and ends I&#8217;ve done a craptastical job of updating the journal &#8211; my apologies.  Here&#8217;s a breakdown of the major events of the past six weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Skipper retired after 814 years in the ministry, and went out by having a bunch of his Native American friends play the drum and sing some songs during his final sermon.  What he does next is anyone&#8217;s guess.<\/li>\n<li>Eddie Murphy was filming his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0763831\/\">next flick<\/a> here a few weeks ago and managed to completely shut down downtown Culver City for three days.  Not only was it more difficult to get to Starbucks, but I got a cold for a week after seeing him.  Coincidence?  Probably.<\/li>\n<li>Aaron is living in the Bay Area again.  He sells houses and stuff and lives with Charlie Chi.  They see deer outside.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/directv.com\/\">DirecTV<\/a> decided to reward folks for a good quarter by having a city-wide scavenger hunt.  The idea sounded good &#8211; limos, drive around looking for stuff&#8230; the execution, while fun, involved a camera and tasks including such gems as &#8220;take a picture with a lifeguard&#8221;, &#8220;do yoga in front of Yogaworks&#8221; and &#8220;take a picture of your (predominantly male) team piled on a store&#8217;s floor&#8221;.  There are now significantly more skeletons in the closet should I ever run for public office.<\/li>\n<li>A friend at work got married last week, and I was lucky enough to be a guest at an Afghan wedding.  The dancing, singing, tublas, food, and all was a real trip &#8211; at one point I remarked that it was a made-for-the-movies scene straight out of My Big Fat Afghan Wedding, and those at the table all agreed.<\/li>\n<li>And good news about someone other than me: <a href=\"\/photos\/galapagos-2006\/pages\/2006-05-B\/9375-isabela-sierra-negra-jb.html\">JB<\/a> was named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/TR35\/Profile.aspx?trid=742\">MIT&#8217;s 2008 Young Innovator<\/a>.  He rules.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pictures from Iceland are only about halfway done, so it will be a while yet before they&#8217;re online.  In the mean time, here are a few of the ones that turned out reasonably well:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2008-06-B\/0518-latrabjarg-razorbills.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Razorbills at Latrabjarg\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Razorbills at Latrabjarg.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2008-06-C\/1079-landmannalauger-landscape.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Landmannalauger Landcape\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Landmannalauger landscape.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2008-06-C\/1141-veidivotn-haukur-snorrason-and-van.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Haukur Snorrason\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Hawk, elevated.  In the foreground you can see the Barbie fun stool.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between work, JAMWiki development, Iceland photos, the Skipper&#8217;s retirement, and various other odds and ends I&#8217;ve done a craptastical job of updating the journal &#8211; my apologies. Here&#8217;s a breakdown of the major events of the past six weeks: The Skipper retired after 814 years in the ministry, and went out by having a bunch &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/08\/31\/eddie-murphy-gave-me-the-sars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eddie Murphy gave me the SARS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}