{"id":348,"date":"2002-06-19T18:32:03","date_gmt":"2002-06-20T01:32:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the instructor (yes the horrible networking instructor that I kept <a href=\\\"http:\/\/orbiting.chargedparticle.com\/index.php?p=333&#038;c=1\\\">complaining<\/a> about a week earlier&#8230;who also gave me a nightmare that I was stuck in his class forever) wanted us to demonstrate network topologies.  So he told us to get up and form a circle.  And hold hands.  I was like&#8230;EERRK!  I reluctantly raised my left hand to the guy next to me and a second later, put my hand back down.  I didn\\&#8217;t want to hold hands.  The guys to the right of me didn\\&#8217;t want to do it either.  But then the instructor started passing around a digital message around the circle.  When it got to the \\&#8221;broken link\\&#8221;, the instructor started screaming \\&#8221;BREAK IN DATA BREAK IN DATA BREAK IN DATA!\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then he made us demonstrate star topology and we had to hold our arms in front of us (still holding hands) for a good 7 minutes.  Tiring.<\/p>\n<p>Then one of the smart alec students said that he didn\\&#8217;t have a message to pass along and broke the circle again.  This time the instructor passed along a HELP HELP message around the circle and had almost all of us screaming HELP HELP by the time we finished.<\/p>\n<p>Lame?  Yes.  Helpful?  Maybe.  Interesting?  Well, okay&#8230;I give my instructor that benefit of doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the instructor (yes the horrible networking instructor that I kept complaining about a week earlier&#8230;who also gave me a nightmare that I was stuck in his class forever) wanted us to demonstrate network topologies. So he told us to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=348\">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-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}