{"id":2850,"date":"2012-12-13T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2013-02-26T15:17:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:17:40","slug":"erase-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/12\/13\/erase-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Erase yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have killed my imaginary pet by deleting my link from Facebook to the only game I kept playing. \u00a0 For a long time, the only reason I would log into Facebook daily was to feed the guy and make sure he was happy.\u00a0 Every time I took a weekend off and had to look at his pitiful poor starving posture and filth I wanted the freedom but couldn’t make myself do it.\u00a0 Now I go days without thinking about logging in and it’s wonderful.\u00a0 I think it’s just one of those things that you make yourself need when you don’t.\u00a0 You know those things, like all web 2.0.\u00a0 I’m not going to make any great argument for or against living part of your life online.\u00a0 I certainly am not one to talk either way.\u00a0 But if you should want to leave the net there are a couple of options out there:\u00a0\u00a0 web 2.0 suicide machine<\/a> and vanish:\u00a0 self destructing digital data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have killed my imaginary pet by deleting my link from Facebook to the only game I kept playing. \u00a0 For a long time, the only reason I would log into Facebook daily was to feed the guy and make sure he was happy.\u00a0 Every time I took a weekend off and had to look… Continue reading Erase yourself<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[62,178],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-fabulous-ideas","tag-ranting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9983,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/07\/20\/paisley-chintz-and-calico-are-they-all-the-same\/","url_meta":{"origin":2850,"position":0},"title":"Paisley, Chintz, and Calico: are they all the same?","author":"leems","date":"July 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\"File:Suzanne Roy, Chintz, c. 1936, NGA 13099.jpg\" by Suzanne Roy is licensed under CC0 1.0 \"Rainy day at V&A\" by Kotomi_ is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 \"Fragment\" is licensed under CC0 1.0 I have been having some big dreams about decor DIYs that will just make everything in my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/suzanneroy-111x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/suzanneroy-111x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/suzanneroy-111x150.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/suzanneroy-111x150.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6808,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/schmidt\/","url_meta":{"origin":2850,"position":1},"title":"Schmidt","author":"leems","date":"January 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"It's normal to instantly start paying more attention when you hear a family name, even for those people whose family names are some of the most common in the world.\u00a0 That's what happened in my house while we were watching ant man and they kept mentioning the Schmidt Pain Index.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1d\/Ant_on_leaf.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8911,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/11\/10\/terms-of-venery\/","url_meta":{"origin":2850,"position":2},"title":"Terms of Venery","author":"leems","date":"November 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\"A Parliament of Owls\" by Derek Bridges is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Ever had a trivia question about what a group of owls is called? 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