{"id":735,"date":"2009-08-24T20:20:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T20:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2009\/08\/24\/in_which_i_rest_on_my_laurels\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T20:20:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T20:20:45","slug":"in_which_i_rest_on_my_laurels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2009\/08\/24\/in_which_i_rest_on_my_laurels\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I rest on my laurels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My little <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/UE19877E8\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/in-which-a-motley-group-of-bloggers-is-invited-to-unite-fringe-frivolous\">FringeFrivolous Blogging UnConference<\/a> came and went this past Friday, and by all accounts a good time was had by all. Several minor miracles transpired:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it did not rain on the roof terrace<\/li>\n<li>everyone had a place to sit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>not one of the fifty-odd (or should that be fifty odd?) delegates plummeted precipitously to the Farringdon sidewalks below<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nand, most importantly,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we did not run out of booze<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThe two winning UnTopics also had the best titles: <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/eva\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/lolcats-and-labrats\">LOLcats and Labrats<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/stuffysour\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/its-a-control-thing-dummy\">Science PR: do we need a Trinny and Susannah for scientists?<\/a>. The group conversation was energetic and enthusiastic \u2013 there are some great photos from Victor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/blog\/academic-life\/fringe-frivolous-and-science-online-london-2009-pictures\/\">here<\/a>, and Richard is just putting the finishing touches on a super video montage now published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/article\/537\">LabLit<\/a>. As for me, I came away with a lot of good blogging ideas for the future.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis post, unfortunately, is not one of them. My spirits have been completely sapped by a fairly unrelenting work schedule of late, and when I found myself weeping over my test tubes for no reason and almost getting into a fistfight over a misunderstood latt\u00e9 order at Starbucks, I realized that it was time for a vacation. So from tomorrow I&#8217;m off to swim in the sea in Kent, do a bit of rambling and then spend about a week at home finishing my third novel (only fifty or so pages to go!).<\/p>\n<p>\nPlay nice, all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My little FringeFrivolous Blogging UnConference came and went this past Friday, and by all accounts a good time was had by all. Several minor miracles transpired: it did not rain on the roof terrace everyone had a place to sit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2009\/08\/24\/in_which_i_rest_on_my_laurels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}