{"id":18698,"date":"2014-09-12T05:52:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18698"},"modified":"2014-09-12T05:52:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T12:52:49","slug":"friday-links-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/12\/friday-links-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the loooooong BHM-wide downage yesterday, guys. Oliver the webmaster tells me it was the result of a security update gone awry at the hosting company. But all should be well now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Today is the day The Great Roof Project begins! Two stages. The first involves returning part of the roof to its original form (after a long-ago &#8220;improvement&#8221; done by a committee of chimpanzees on a no-bid government contract). After that, the actual roofing crew comes in. <\/p>\n<p>Crews must coordinate with each other on timing. Weather holding so far. Might have a few nervous-making days. But winter should be dry inside &#8212; thanks to you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Now for some links. I&#8217;m shifting away from &#8220;news&#8221; as I mentioned the other day so it takes a little longer collecting good stuff. Fortunately, I get by with a little help from my friends.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In business: the case for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-09-09\/the-case-for-recruiting-weirdos\" target=\"_blank\">recruiting weirdos<\/a>. (Hey, that might be us!)\n<li>Although <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/if-you-know-who-eric-holder-is-you-probably-dont-like-him\/article\/2553120\" target=\"_blank\">this item<\/a> is kind of &#8220;news&#8221; (it being about how people hate Eric Holder), I&#8217;m linking it as &#8220;anti-news.&#8221; Note the percentage of those polled who <i>simply don&#8217;t know who the guy is<\/i>. I used to think such ignorance was shocking and dangerous. Now? I rather envy it.\n<li>How the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesaltucher.com\/2013\/09\/how-the-power-of-no-saved-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">power of no<\/a> saved my life. (James Altucher&#8217;s off-kilter notion of no. H\/T Randall in comments.)\n<li>For those who are rilly, rilly, rilly serious about their guns, old acquaintance Ian of Forgotten Weapons, is now producing episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inrange.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">InRange.tv<\/a>. It&#8217;s pay-per-episode, but with Ian you always know you&#8217;ll get something you can&#8217;t find elsewhere. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a>)\n<li>I was going to save <a href=\"http:\/\/barkpost.com\/spider-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> for Halloween. But what the heck; weird dog videos are always in season. (Tip o&#8217; hat and a smile to Jim B. in comments.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the loooooong BHM-wide downage yesterday, guys. Oliver the webmaster tells me it was the result of a security update gone awry at the hosting company. But all should be well now. &#8212;&#8211; Today is the day The Great Roof Project begins! Two stages. The first involves returning part of the roof to its original form (after a long-ago &#8220;improvement&#8221; done by a committee of chimpanzees on a no-bid government contract). After that, the actual roofing crew comes in. Crews must coordinate with each other on timing. Weather holding so far. Might have a few nervous-making days. But winter&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/12\/friday-links-etc\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday links etc.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,12,16,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}