{"id":16013,"date":"2009-11-16T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/11\/16\/how-to-pretend-that-you-attended-my-talk-at-uiuc-reflectionsprojections-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-11-16T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T07:00:01","slug":"how-to-pretend-that-you-attended-my-talk-at-uiuc-reflectionsprojections-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091116-01\/?p=16013","title":{"rendered":"How to pretend that you attended my talk at UIUC Reflections&#124;Projections 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<b>Step 1<\/b>:\nBuy a\n1.55-ounce Hershey&#8217;s Milk Chocolate Bar\nfrom a convenience store, supermarket, or (if truly desperate)\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000IXWCQO?tag=tholneth-20\">\nonline<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Step 2<\/b>:\nPrint out\n<a HREF=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/oldnewthing\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Draftfortesting_AA00\/img30_thumb.jpg\">\nthis candy bar wrapper<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Step 3<\/b>:\nTrim wrapper on registration marks and wrap around candy bar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Step 4<\/b>:\nStay up late the night before you plan on watching the video\nby partying with\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/\">\nRyan North<\/a>\nand\n<a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mokudekiru\/status\/4973332645\">\nteaching him how to play beer pong<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Step 5<\/b>:\nForce yourself to wake up the next morning and watch\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.acm.uiuc.edu\/conference\/2009\/videos.html\">\nthe recorded video<\/a>\nof\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.acm.uiuc.edu\/conference\/2009\/speakers\/chen.html\">\nmy talk<\/a>\nwhile trying desperately to stay awake.\nThe candy bar might help.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Note<\/b>: Although most steps are optional, they\nare essential if you want an accurate simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: Buy a 1.55-ounce Hershey&#8217;s Milk Chocolate Bar from a convenience store, supermarket, or (if truly desperate) online. Step 2: Print out this candy bar wrapper. Step 3: Trim wrapper on registration marks and wrap around candy bar. Step 4: Stay up late the night before you plan on watching the video by partying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-16013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Step 1: Buy a 1.55-ounce Hershey&#8217;s Milk Chocolate Bar from a convenience store, supermarket, or (if truly desperate) online. Step 2: Print out this candy bar wrapper. Step 3: Trim wrapper on registration marks and wrap around candy bar. Step 4: Stay up late the night before you plan on watching the video by partying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}