{"id":26353,"date":"2007-06-19T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/06\/19\/im-pretty-sure-hes-going-to-be-the-envy-of-his-next-school-reunion\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T10:00:01","slug":"im-pretty-sure-hes-going-to-be-the-envy-of-his-next-school-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070619-01\/?p=26353","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m pretty sure he&#039;s going to be the envy of his next school reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masi Oka has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/lifestyle\/news\/2006\/10\/71984\"> pretty much everything<\/a> the dorky nerd geek has ever dreamed of.\n Right out of college, he lands a job at Industrial Light and Magic doing digital effects, developing complex algorithms for water and other fluid effects seen in movies like <i>The Perfect Storm<\/i>. That&#8217;d already be enough to make him the hit of his next school reunion.\n And then he scores a major role in the television series <i>Heroes<\/i> as a, well, dorky nerd geek. But one with a super power. Now at his next school reunion, he&#8217;s going to be mobbed by people who wouldn&#8217;t even give him the time of day when he was in school.<\/p>\n<p> But wait, there&#8217;s more. Now it is rumored that Riyo Mori, the newly-crowned Miss Universe, is being considered for a role on <i>Heroes<\/i> as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1631932,00.html\">the love interest of one of the show&#8217;s superhero characters<\/a>.&#8221; Given that her character has a Japanese name, it&#8217;s not unreasonable to suppose that the superhero in question may be Oka&#8217;s character Hiro. If so, and she gets the role, then he&#8217;ll not just be an accomplished digital effects artist, not just a prime-time actor, but an actor whose on-screen girlfriend was crowned the most beautiful woman in the world! At his next reunion, Oka&#8217;s going to be mobbed by people who didn&#8217;t even attend his school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masi Oka has pretty much everything the dorky nerd geek has ever dreamed of. Right out of college, he lands a job at Industrial Light and Magic doing digital effects, developing complex algorithms for water and other fluid effects seen in movies like The Perfect Storm. That&#8217;d already be enough to make him the hit [&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":[103],"class_list":["post-26353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Masi Oka has pretty much everything the dorky nerd geek has ever dreamed of. Right out of college, he lands a job at Industrial Light and Magic doing digital effects, developing complex algorithms for water and other fluid effects seen in movies like The Perfect Storm. That&#8217;d already be enough to make him the hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353","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=26353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353\/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=26353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}