{"id":168,"date":"2008-01-21T01:53:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T07:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/thanks-again-mccarthy\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:18:55","slug":"thanks-again-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/thanks-again-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Again, McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up at night watching <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/B000GUJYGA\/pchristense03-20\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Age 2: The Meltdown<\/a> and in the special features, there are set of fake 50s style documentaries on the different animals in the movie.  The first one is called:<\/p>\n<p>Sloths: Natures Loveable Lisper<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/losing-big-is-easy.html\" target=\"_blank\">naming idea<\/a> from 50 years ago, we have a mascot:<\/p>\n<p><hints id=\"hah_hints\"><\/hints><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/sid_ice_age.jpg\" alt=\"sid\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m just a little less proud than I was 5 minutes ago.  How about this?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/sid_mcarthy.jpg\" alt=\"sid mccarthy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There, I feel a little bit better.  A note to all aspiring computational revolutionaries: ask a normal person what your great language name makes them think of.  You might be surprised what you find out.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I think this lesson has been well learned because all of the new languages have cool names.  Thankfully, this is one way that new languages are not becoming more like Lisp!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up at night watching Ice Age 2: The Meltdown and in the special features, there are set of fake 50s style documentaries on the different animals in the movie. The first one is called: Sloths: Natures Loveable Lisper Thanks to a wonderful naming idea from 50 years ago, we have a mascot: I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fun","7":"category-lisp","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazgP-2I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}