{"id":145,"date":"2005-12-09T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T17:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=145"},"modified":"2015-06-22T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:10:37","slug":"no-ads-big-bros-tattoo-phil-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/09\/no-ads-big-bros-tattoo-phil-final\/","title":{"rendered":"No ads, Big bro&#8217;s tattoo, Phil final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/bennettfilter.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Hey, I decided I didn&#039;t like seeing the Google AdSense ads on my page, so I&#039;m taking them off. I was feeling like those unfaithful public servants who name stadiums after a different company every year.  For $10 a month? Reading up on the topic, I came across this new slobbering greed-word, &#8220;monetize.&#8221;  I decided to demonetize my site.  Now if I had a clickstream like boing boing, maybe it&#039;d be another story, but for me the decision&#039;s easy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/embrytat.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>My big brother Embry got a tattoo in August and I just found out.  He says his kids did doubletakes like never before.  He got it in California; he told his wife he was gonna go look at the tattoo parlor, and she said, &#8220;Oh, you&#039;re always looking but you never get one.&#8221;  But this time he did.  It&#039;s a seahorse to symbolize his love of diving, with wings relating to the fact that he&rsquo;s a pilot.  The old objection, &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll have that thing for the rest of your life,&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t have much force at our age!<\/p>\n<p>I like his expression in the picture.  A real pheezer. Blank Reg from <i>Max Headroom<\/i>.  We <i>are<\/i> from Kentucky, you know.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone messes with me, my big brother&rsquo;ll kick their butt!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/br_teach.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Mild-mannered dreamer prof that I am, I obviously need protecting.<\/p>\n<p>I gave my my final lecture in Philosophy 115 at SJSU  yesterday, based on Chapter 6 of my tome. Includes discussion of my ambivalence about how to end the book, panpsychism, ontolgies, unsolvability, computational equivalence, unpredictability, undecidability, and my six principles on how to be happy.   I posted the podcast today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/podcasts\"><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/podcasts\/podcastbanner_600.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also posted some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/pdf\/phil115_finalreview_dec_9_2005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sample questions<\/a> for the final exam.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/sclifeboxsale.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#039;s a little monetization (my style): give the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/lifebox\" target=\"_blank\">Good Book<\/a> for  Christmas; in stores now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I decided I didn&#039;t like seeing the Google AdSense ads on my page, so I&#039;m taking them off. I was feeling like those unfaithful public servants who name stadiums after a different company every year. For $10 a month? Reading up on the topic, I came across this new slobbering greed-word, &#8220;monetize.&#8221; I decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}