{"id":291,"date":"2010-03-15T21:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2010\/03\/15\/anyone_watching_tv_in_the_us_tonight\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T21:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:40:19","slug":"anyone_watching_tv_in_the_us_tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2010\/03\/15\/anyone_watching_tv_in_the_us_tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Watching TV in the US Tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Bioephemera, Jessica took some time out from her wrestling practice to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/bioephemera\/2010\/03\/tonight_the_miracle_of_enginee.php\">eulogize over this advert<\/a>, for a national Geographic programme that is on tonight in the US:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nYou know Jessica was enthused when she has to pull out with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ok, now I&#8217;m re-envisioning LOTR as an extended metaphor for fertilization. Not good. Moving on. . . <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, this prompted me to bastardize some poetry.  Here&#8217;s the improved version:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One egg to rule them all, one egg to call them<br \/>\nOne egg to find them all, and in the darkness bind them<br \/>\nIn the land of Fallopius, where the shadows lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would give it in the original, but I don&#8217;t know what is &#8220;egg&#8221; in the Black Speech of Mordor.<br \/>\nIf anyone is going to watching the programme, could you live-tweet the experience so the rest of us can enjoy the fun later, please.<br \/>\n<b>EDIT<\/b>: Ooh! There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/episode\/sizing-up-sperm-4921\/Overview12#tab-Overview\">webpage for the programme<\/a>, including a game:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e4.com\/games\/\" target=\"_blank\">Play more games on E4.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nJust in case size matters, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/the-great-sperm-race\/articles\/the-great-sperm-race-game\">play the game here too<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Bioephemera, Jessica took some time out from her wrestling practice to eulogize over this advert, for a national Geographic programme that is on tonight in the US:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}