{"id":161,"date":"2005-04-20T09:24:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T09:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=161"},"modified":"2005-04-20T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T09:24:57","slug":"movies-and-the-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/04\/20\/movies-and-the-meaning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies and the Meaning of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was transforming some bacteria today when I realized that we heat-shock competent cells at 42 degrees.  FORTY-TWO!  Why, that&#8217;s the meaning of life, the universe, and everything!  Now THERE&#8217;s something to think about. Well, until <A HREF=\"http:\/\/hitchhikers.movies.go.com\/\">that movie<\/A> comes out, I&#8217;ve been taking more advantage of my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.blockbuster.com\">Blockbuster<\/A> online membership lately.  Among the better flicks I&#8217;ve watched were <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.raymovie.com\">Ray<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.oceans12.net\">Ocean&#8217;s 12<\/A>.  I also saw&#8230; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sawmovie.com\">Saw<\/A>, which had an interesting plot, but horrible acting.  I even got some episodes from the first season of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/series\/TNG\/\">Star Trek: TNG<\/A> to relive my bygone days as a high school geek.  Btw, is it just me, or have any of those guys actually aged since the series began?  Beside Jonathan Frakes growing a mustache, I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve changed at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was transforming some bacteria today when I realized that we heat-shock competent cells at 42 degrees. FORTY-TWO! Why, that&#8217;s the meaning of life, the universe, and everything! Now THERE&#8217;s something to think about. Well, until that movie comes out, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/04\/20\/movies-and-the-meaning-of-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}