{"id":14,"date":"2001-10-24T16:45:04","date_gmt":"2001-10-24T16:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2001-10-24T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2001-10-24T16:45:04","slug":"weve_been_on_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve been on this shift too long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline crunch that kept me from posting here for a while has now officially passed. In the part of IBM where I work, iterations of the software and documentation are called drivers for some reason. When I started this job six months ago, work was just starting on Driver 6, to which I contributed nothing worth mentioning. The deadline that just passed was for Driver 7, and this time I wrote a bunch of online help pages (which is why I was so busy the last couple of weeks).<br \/>\nNow we&#8217;re starting on Driver 8, and when my manager sent out an e-mail about the schedule, he attached an MP3 file containing an R.E.M. song called &#8220;Driver 8.&#8221; (You can hear a sample of it <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnow.com\/switch\/from=sr-374655\/target=buyweb_purchase\/ddcn=SD-7777+93479+2\">here<\/a>.) Playing it through my headset, I found that I really liked the sound of it, but couldn&#8217;t make out all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remrock.com\/remrock\/lyrics\/albums\/fables.html?song=driver\">lyrics<\/a>. And in the process of tracking them down on the Web, I discovered that the guy playing drums on this song was named Berry. Isn&#8217;t synchronicity fun? No, wait, that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discographynet.com\/police\/pos.html\">The Police<\/a>. Never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline crunch that kept me from posting here for a while has now officially passed. In the part of IBM where I work, iterations of the software and documentation are called drivers for some reason. When I started this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=14\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}