{"id":498,"date":"2013-01-23T21:02:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T04:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2013-01-23T21:02:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T04:02:37","slug":"up-goer-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/up-goer-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Goer Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So: A little while ago, Randall Munroe posted an xkcd cartoon called &#8220;<a title=\"Up Goer Five\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1133\/\" target=\"_blank\">Up Goer Five<\/a>&#8220;, which is a diagram of the Apollo\/Saturn V stack, annotated using only the thousand most common words in current English.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by that, Theo Sanderson wrote an <a title=\"UpGoer Five Text Editor\" href=\"http:\/\/splasho.com\/upgoer5\/\" target=\"_blank\">online text editor<\/a> which warns you when you are using a word that is not in the thousand most common list.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by <em>that<\/em>, I have begun to revise my resume. I work with Oracle databases. Or simplified:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I make computers do things, like keep big tables of who has to pay money to the place I work. The tables are kept on computers that only keep tables. I make those computers work as fast as they can so the other computers that read the tables can do their work quickly. Once a day I make my computers do new things or fix things that are broken. Other people send me new or fixed things for the computers to do. I put the new things on the computer in the right order so it all works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So: A little while ago, Randall Munroe posted an xkcd cartoon called &#8220;Up Goer Five&#8220;, which is a diagram of the Apollo\/Saturn V stack, annotated using only the thousand most common words in current English. Inspired by that, Theo Sanderson &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/up-goer-five\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}