{"id":381,"date":"2005-05-30T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=381"},"modified":"2005-05-29T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2005-05-29T17:39:20","slug":"easter-eggs-and-parental-guilt-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Easter Eggs and parental guilt trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was checking coverage on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motient.com\">Motient<\/a> data network for a friend of mine (and simultaneously being in awe that the Motient data network, which runs on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaccess.com\/wireless_tech\/datatac.htm\">DataTAC network<\/a> that&#8217;s been aroud since 1987 and technically hasn&#8217;t changed one bit, is <em>still operating<\/em>), I came across a very odd street name on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motient.com\/find\/national.asp\">coverage map tool<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/evanyounever.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/evanyounever_tn.jpg\" alt=\"evan you never\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(click on the above image for a larger view)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Evan You Never Call Us Down Here&#8221; road?  Could there possibly be a street bearing this name?<\/p>\n<p>Well, no.  As it turns out, comparing the same coordinates on a GPS mapping tool <a href=\"\/images\/newrd.jpg\">yields a much more mundane (and personally verified as correct) street name<\/a>.  But I do wonder who decided to put this little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=define%3Aeaster+egg&#038;sourceid=mozilla-search&#038;start=0&#038;start=0&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\">easter egg<\/a> into the map, and who they were trying to guilt trip.  It&#8217;s quite subtle, and I wonder if it was effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbling across an easter egg in a mapping program, designed to evoke the guilt trip in someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}