{"id":48,"date":"2005-12-23T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/i-can-hear-myself-think\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:48","slug":"i-can-hear-myself-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/i-can-hear-myself-think\/","title":{"rendered":"I can hear myself think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I come home after being in Madison for a couple months, it amazes me anew just how quiet it is <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=2932+hidden+lake+ln,+green+bay,+wi&#038;spn=0.004585,0.013209&#038;t=k&#038;iwloc=A&#038;hl=en\">here<\/a>.  Being in &#8220;the country&#8221; (aka a more sparsely-populated suburb) is a pleasant change from the continual background noise of Madtown&#8230;. though a bit unnerving for a little while as well.  It&#8217;s good to be home, though.<\/p>\n<p>Catching up on issues of Popular Science, I came across this awesome quote from a letter to the editor:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it weren&#8217;t for our presumptuous desire to learn, humanity would have the same aspirations as a herd of cows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Awesome quote&#8230; on the other hand, cows never had to take finals.  I&#8217;m glad those are over with.  Except for ece 352, where even the final was awesome.  We got a cake! (It was Prof. Schulte&#8217;s birthday.  (That&#8217;s Prof. Lipasti in the picture))<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/mywebspace.wisc.edu\/mccambridge\/blog\/352cake.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of birthdays, Happy Birthday to Dave Dreyer, who is 87 days older than I today, and to Jacob Michael LaSota, who is 86 days older than I tomorrow.  lol&#8230; think about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I come home after being in Madison for a couple months, it amazes me anew just how quiet it is here. Being in &#8220;the country&#8221; (aka a more sparsely-populated suburb) is a pleasant change from the continual background noise of Madtown&#8230;. though a bit unnerving for a little while as well. It&#8217;s good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}