{"id":8534,"date":"2010-11-28T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2010-11-28T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T01:32:11","slug":"two-by-two-pats-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/28\/two-by-two-pats-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Two By Two, Pats For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Twitter feed associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/qahatesyou.com\" target=\"_blank\">QA Hates You<\/a> is chock full of geeks, and I don&#8217;t mind telling you, the recent upgrades to TSA security protocols have really caused quite a stir.  Why on earth did this particular affront so capture geek imagination and indignation?<\/p>\n<p>Then it hit me.  To a geek steeped in the culture, this guy:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/tsahands.jpg\" alt=\"TSA's hands of blue\" width=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>Looks a lot like these guys:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/fireflyhands.jpg\" alt=\"Firefly's villians with the hands of blue\" width=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>The latter, of course, are the bad guys in the television series <em>Firefly<\/em> and the film <em>Serenity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much that affected the geeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Twitter feed associated with QA Hates You is chock full of geeks, and I don&#8217;t mind telling you, the recent upgrades to TSA security protocols have really caused quite a stir. Why on earth did this particular affront so capture geek imagination and indignation? Then it hit me. To a geek steeped in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8537,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions\/8537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}