{"id":30,"date":"2006-10-05T11:44:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2006\/10\/05\/the-tears-of-a-grown-man\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T16:44:33","slug":"the-tears-of-a-grown-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"The tears of a grown man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to the free screening of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/An_inconvenient_truth\">An Inconvenient Truth<\/A> at TTU.  Al Gore himself was there but he was <I>totally<\/I> worthless because he spent the entire night crying since <A HREF=\"http:\/\/treypiepmeier.com\/archives\/64\">Trey and Megan didn&#8217;t show up<\/A>.  The movie itself was good, though I sometimes grew weary of Gore&#8217;s tactic of putting some schlock and &#8216;aw shucks&#8217; between the scientific bits.  I would have preferred a harder look at the science with more emphasis on actual numbers.  However, I think it&#8217;s a great movie overall, and I of course urge you to see it.  That doesn&#8217;t mean anything, though &#8211; when <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jasoncoleman.net\/2006\/06\/19\/al-gores-an-inconvenient-truth\/\">Jason C went on and on about it<\/A> I didn&#8217;t run out and see it.<\/p>\n<p>What we all need to realize is this: sometimes reading about something in a friend&#8217;s blog post doesn&#8217;t move you to action.  You should change your ways and begin to accept me as your overlord.  The sooner you do this the better and the less time you&#8217;ll have to spend in the sugar mines.<\/p>\n<p>OKAY speaking of action, I need a yea or nay here.  We all know I caved on growing a beard, though I have not discussed all the particulars.  Doesn&#8217;t matter.  Now the hair on my head is driving me crazy.  I want to shave it all off.  I present the following:<\/p>\n<p><B>Pros: short hair<\/B><br \/>\n-Less work<br \/>\n-Can wear hats during winter without messing up hair<br \/>\n-Currently fairly stylish, or at least popular around these parts<\/p>\n<p><B>Cons: short hair<\/B><br \/>\n-None currently known to science<\/p>\n<p><B>Pros: long hair<\/B><br \/>\n-None currently known to science<\/p>\n<p><B>Cons: long hair<\/B><br \/>\n-Can&#8217;t make it do anything resembling stylish<br \/>\n-Requires professional haircuts which apparently cost money<br \/>\n-I look like a doofus<\/p>\n<p>Because I am a kind and benevolent ruthless overlord, I submit this to a vote.  You, my people, my army, shall help me decide.<\/p>\n<p><B><I>Should I cut my hair all short-like?<\/I><\/B><\/p>\n<p>Yea or nay, folks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to the free screening of An Inconvenient Truth at TTU. Al Gore himself was there but he was totally worthless because he spent the entire night crying since Trey and Megan didn&#8217;t show up. The movie itself was good, though I sometimes grew weary of Gore&#8217;s tactic of putting some schlock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}