{"id":261,"date":"2004-12-07T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/entropy-in-beantown\/"},"modified":"2004-12-07T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T23:09:00","slug":"entropy-in-beantown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/07\/entropy-in-beantown\/","title":{"rendered":"Entropy in Beantown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Boston right now, having given an arrow-of-time talk at Tufts this afternoon.  No time to blog, as I am obligated to rush around taking advantage of the delights here in the Hub.  In particular, no time to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/majikthise_\/2004\/12\/the_superhero_d.html\">Majikthise&#8217;s<\/a> suggestion and make a picture of myself as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugo.com\/channels\/comics\/heroMachine2\/heromachine2.asp\">superhero<\/a>.  (Usually I&#8217;m pretty easy to convince on things like that.)  But if anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I&#8217;d be curious to see how they come out; the best ones that people sent me I will post here.  Categories include:  superhero avatars of yourselves, of me, or of famous physicists.  Villains are also acceptable.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/now_i_just_need_to_find_a_phonebooth\" \/>More<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/001650.php\">examples<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/majikthise_\/2004\/12\/the_superhero_r.html\">here<\/a>.)<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Boston right now, having given an arrow-of-time talk at Tufts this afternoon. No time to blog, as I am obligated to rush around taking advantage of the delights here in the Hub. In particular, no time to follow Majikthise&#8217;s suggestion and make a picture of myself as a superhero. (Usually I&#8217;m pretty easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}