{"id":84,"date":"2007-01-26T00:31:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/step_3_dont_ope\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T00:31:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T00:31:51","slug":"step_3_dont_ope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/technology\/step_3_dont_ope\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 3: Don&#8217;t open the box."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/schrodingers_cat.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=300,height=150,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Schrodingers_cat\" border=\"0\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/schrodingers_cat.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Schrodingers_cat\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>Usually my coworkers and I are too busy at the office to use IM for anything non-work-related, but occasionally it serves as a virtual water cooler, like yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">how was your date<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">is that why you were late<\/span><br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">no, i had a doctor&#39;s appointment this morning.<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">was the doc appt related to the date?<\/span><br \/>jay:<span style=\"color: #006633;\"> i wish.<\/span><br \/>carlin: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">there&#39;s a male morning after pill now?<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">it seeks out and destroys your sperm wherever it happens to be<\/span><br \/>carlin: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">it&#39;s a homing and killing device.<\/span><br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">yeah. the guy takes the pill, the woman&#39;s pregnancy terminates.<\/span><br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">does your sperm have to be pre-installed with self-destruct devices?<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">no the spewed sperm are quantum-entangled with your remaining sperm. it reads those.<\/span><br \/>carlin: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">bingo<\/span><br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">&quot;quantum entangled&quot; &#8211; i&#39;m not familiar with that term.<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">simple physics. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">jay: <\/span><span style=\"color: #006633;\">yeah, sounds real simple<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">matt: <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">collapse of the wave function, etc.<\/span><br \/>carlin: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">it&#39;s a sperm, it&#39;s a particle&#8230;<\/span><br \/>matt:<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> it&#39;s a spermicle<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">we should do a charticle on spermicles<\/span><br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">and how does it work? the man swallows a pill?<\/span><br \/>carlin: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">it&#39;s a spermcicle<\/span><br \/>carlin: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">yum<\/span><br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">or he goes to the window and releases it?<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">he jacks off into a black box<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%83%C2%B6dinger%27s_cat\" target=\"_blank\">cat<\/a> in it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EPILOGUE <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jay laughs so loudly at this that another coworker asks Jay to share with the group.<br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">what should i say?<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MAKE SOMETHING UP<\/span><br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">give me something!<\/span><br \/>Carlin distracts the coworker with a question about the flowers on her desk.<br \/>carlin: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">drop it<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">um, tell her you found a picture of a monkey that looks like a dog<\/span><br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">should i seriously forward <a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/files\/monkey_dog.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">that<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006633;\">to her?<\/span><br \/>carlin: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">no drop it!!!!<\/span><br \/>matt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">looks like she&#39;s over it<\/span><br \/>jay: <span style=\"color: #006633;\">ok. thanks. nice work, carlin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually my coworkers and I are too busy at the office to use IM for anything non-work-related, but occasionally it serves as a virtual water cooler, like yesterday. matt: how was your datematt: is that why you were latejay: no, i had a doctor&#39;s appointment this morning.matt: was the doc appt related to the date?jay: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-sex","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}