{"id":90,"date":"2013-03-01T23:18:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T23:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=90"},"modified":"2013-03-01T23:18:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T23:18:48","slug":"a-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"A Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can ignore this post, it&#8217;s a waste of both our times.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing more and more email messages with the sign-off of &#8220;Sent from my I-phone&#8221; or something similar.  At first I was confused what that meant, now it&#8217;s become annoying.  What are these people trying to tell me?  Here are some ideas I&#8217;ve had:<\/p>\n<p>The sender has recently discovered how to send an email from their i-phone and are announcing it to the world.  Now, if they just recently discovered email I commend them for their achievements: getting the hang of computers is not easy, and is quite a milestone.  Or, maybe using email on the i-phone is so difficult it&#8217;s cause for celebration if you manage to get a message out.  Either way, congratulations on your success.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the sender is busy busy busy, an important person who is granting extremely valuable time to me and wants me to know it.  You know what?  The next email I get from you I won&#8217;t even read for 24 hours, then not respond for two days after that, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the sender is sitting in McDonalds, scarfing down a Big Mac and fries with a diet milkshake.  I don&#8217;t care.  But instead of sending me an email, take a look at all those numbers printed under your &#8220;placemat&#8221; and note the calories and salt you&#8217;re eating.  When you get home, check the number on that tag on your waistband.  Tell that to your i-phone.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re proud of sending me an email from your i-phone, I acknowledge such and ask that you don&#8217;t bother informing me again.  If you really don&#8217;t have time to answer my emails, tell me and I&#8217;ll understand.  That the i-phone is capable of sending emails I already know.<\/p>\n<p>Sent from my Aspire One netbook with Atom processor using the Linux operating system and strictly free, open-source software.  It&#8217;s black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can ignore this post, it&#8217;s a waste of both our times. I&#8217;ve been seeing more and more email messages with the sign-off of &#8220;Sent from my I-phone&#8221; or something similar. At first I was confused what that meant, now it&#8217;s become annoying. What are these people trying to tell me? Here are some ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}