{"id":756,"date":"2007-12-16T23:47:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/16\/so-this-is-why-i-keep-losing-my-friends\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T23:47:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T23:47:58","slug":"so-this-is-why-i-keep-losing-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/16\/so-this-is-why-i-keep-losing-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"So this is why I keep losing my friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/356\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/nerd_sniping.png?w=450\" alt=\"Nerd sniping by xkcd\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein spent several years in Pasadena, California, working at CalTech.  Einstein wasn&#8217;t known for being terribly focused on his surroundings, and apparently many of the locals were terrified that they would go down in history as the person that mowed down Einstein as he stepped out into the road without looking.  (Apparently he left a check of some size in a library book &#8211; he&#8217;d been using it as a bookmark instead of depositing it.)<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/absent-minded-professors\/\" title=\"absent-minded professors\">absent-minded professors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/albert-einstein\/\" title=\"Albert Einstein\">Albert Einstein<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/science\/\" title=\"Science\">Science<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/web-comic\/\" title=\"web comic\">web comic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/xkcd\/\" title=\"xkcd\">xkcd<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/08\/10\/youd-almost-think-women-were-important\/\" title=\"You&#8217;d almost think women were important (10 Aug 08)\">You&#8217;d almost think women were important<\/a> (1)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/you-have-to-either-laugh-or-cry-and-ill-help-you-do-both\/\" title=\"You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both) (11 Sep 08)\">You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both)<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Einstein spent several years in Pasadena, California, working at CalTech. Einstein wasn&#8217;t known for being terribly focused on his surroundings, and apparently many of the locals were terrified that they would go down in history as the person that mowed down Einstein as he stepped out into the road without looking. (Apparently he left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/16\/so-this-is-why-i-keep-losing-my-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So this is why I keep losing my friends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[14,12,15],"tags":[187,186,866,184,185],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":126,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/17\/mit-students-find-absence-of-human-intelligence-at-csci-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":756,"position":0},"title":"MIT students find absence of human intelligence at CSci conference","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"17 Apr 05","format":false,"excerpt":"In the late 1940's Alan Turing wrestled with the thorny problem of how we'd recognize (computer) intelligence if it walked up and bit us. 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