{"id":83,"date":"2007-02-24T19:18:40","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T19:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/bytes_for_bites\/"},"modified":"2007-02-24T19:18:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T19:18:40","slug":"bytes_for_bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/funny\/bytes_for_bites\/","title":{"rendered":"Bytes for Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/benetton.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=146,height=146,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Benetton\" title=\"Benetton\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/benetton.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>In 2005 I <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/worlds_of_possi.html\">posted<\/a> hyperbolic praise for Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s $100 laptop program that revealed my idealistic side. A more pragmatic response would be Bill Gates&#8217; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fakesteve.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/gates-foundation-will-buy-100-craptops.html\">&quot;Be a Hero, Feed Your Family&quot;<\/a> program, in which the Gates Foundation offers poor hungry laptop recipients $100 in hard cash or food or vaccines for their colorful gadgets. (&quot;&#8230;The &#8216;Be a Hero&#8217; program will offer you valuable goods in exchange for your wonderful toy. As much as one hundred dollars, Abdul! Think! That is more than your Papa earned all last year!&#8230;&quot;)<\/p>\n<p>The apocryphal plan reminds me of one of my favorite Sarah Silverman gags (as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/051024fa_fact\">quoted<\/a> in the NYer):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I, this past summer, sent fifteen really fun cowl-neck sweaters to this village in Africa, in really fun colors\u2014expecting nothing, by the way\u2014and they culled their money together, whatever they call it, and bought a stamp and sent me a postcard thanking me, and it said thank you and that they had enough sweaters for every single member of the village to get one and that they were delicious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(P.S. Holly, I hope you do your <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/images4africa.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/14\/pom-poms-british-in-tanzania\/\">yarn activities<\/a> with the Tanzanian orphans *after* lunch.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005 I posted hyperbolic praise for Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s $100 laptop program that revealed my idealistic side. A more pragmatic response would be Bill Gates&#8217; &quot;Be a Hero, Feed Your Family&quot; program, in which the Gates Foundation offers poor hungry laptop recipients $100 in hard cash or food or vaccines for their colorful gadgets. (&quot;&#8230;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41,2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-food-and-drink","category-funny","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}