{"id":8,"date":"2004-08-29T09:18:24","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T09:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2004-08-29T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2004-08-29T09:18:24","slug":"i-stand-here-in-a-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/8","title":{"rendered":"I stand here in a towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stand here in a towel, brooding with things to say.  There is so much on my mind, but at the same time, so little.<\/p>\n<p>I do my best thinking in the shower. The shower is probably a place of intense thought for many people. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not often you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re allowed to be alone, naked, relaxed, and wet, but the world would probably be a much better place if this was not the case. Anyway, this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really on my mind, so let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get to business.<\/p>\n<p>What is the difference between ubiquity and pervasiveness? This question has been floating, unformed, in my head for the past few days, but now it is time to come out. I turn to my trusty <u>American Heritage Collage dic\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2tion\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2ar\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2y<\/u> for some definitive answers:<\/p>\n<p><b>u\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2biq\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2ui\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2ty<\/b>  <i>n.<\/i>  Existence or apparent existence everywhere at the same time; omnipresence.<\/p>\n<p><b>per\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2va\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2sive<\/b>  <i>adj.<\/i>  Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate; the pervasive odor of garlic. <b>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cper\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2va\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2sive\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2ness<\/b><i> n.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure if I like that definition of pervasive, it just seems so negative. I guess I see a difference between the two, though I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only because one is a noun and the other an adjective. Something which is ubiquitous is present everywhere you look, while a pervasive object is moving throughout a world such that at some point it may become ubiquitous. Maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just more confused now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Time to get crackin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. There is just so much to do. I have learned that moving to a new town far from home is an expensive and time-stealing proposition. I have spent more time and money in the last week buying things I already own, but could not fit into a car. On tap today is a car wash, bike, and desk. At some point I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to study for the first time in 2 months. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be hard to get back into the swing of things, but I guess that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the challenge for everyone. Ok, into Bloomingtown I go\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stand here in a towel, brooding with things to say. There is so much on my mind, but at the same time, so little. I do my best thinking in the shower. The shower is probably a place of intense thought for many people. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not often you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re allowed to be alone, naked, relaxed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hci-topic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}