{"id":4419,"date":"2020-03-16T07:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T07:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2020-03-17T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:31:09","slug":"guns-germs-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2020\/03\/16\/guns-germs-steal\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns, Germs, &#038; Steal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.callofduty.com\/modernwarfare\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4425\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020.03.15.a-100x100.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4426\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020.03.15.b-100x100.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/outerworlds.obsidian.net\/en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4428\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020.03.15.c-100x100.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>I embarked on NIH grant reviews earlier this month, only to find out in the meantime that my first R01 submission was not discussed, which led me to finally break out my new copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.callofduty.com\/modernwarfare\">Modern Warfare<\/a> to start shooting at stuff. As expected, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.callofduty.com\/\">Call of Duty<\/a> entry brought bigger explosions and better graphics, which helped show off my new computer hardware. This was also an opportune time to get back into gaming as c<span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">ontinued expansion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/about\/index.html\">COVID-19<\/a> outbreak has led to cancellations of events and meetings, requiring frantic flight and hotel cancellations while the stock market plunged into bear market territory. With stores and restaurants likely to shutter their doors soon, we did manage to squeeze in a visit to Kevin Johnson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/fixinssoulkitchen.com\/\">Fixins Soul Kitchen<\/a> for fried chicken, oxtail, and fried green tomatoes, as well as a massive meal at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmenu.com\/tasty-kitchen-davis-online-menu\/\">Tasty Kitchen<\/a> with enough leftovers to feed us for the weekend. To avoid cabin fever amidst all the social distancing, I installed <a href=\"https:\/\/outerworlds.obsidian.net\/en\">The Outer Worlds<\/a> as part of a free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/xbox-game-pass\">Xbox Game Pass<\/a> trial. The first-person RPG instantly reminded us of <a href=\"https:\/\/fallout.bethesda.net\/en\/games\/fallout-new-vegas\">Fallout: New Vegas<\/a> which was created by the same studio. Complete with a retro-futuristic aesthetic, sarcastic dark humor, and a Tactical Time Dilation (TTD) system reminiscent of VATS, the game promises to keep us entertained as we plan to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">hunker down at home to avoid the growing pandemic<\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I embarked on NIH grant reviews earlier this month, only to find out in the meantime that my first R01 submission was not discussed, which led me to finally break out my new copy of Modern Warfare to start shooting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2020\/03\/16\/guns-germs-steal\/\">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-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","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=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}