{"id":418,"date":"2006-07-24T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T09:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/24\/how-do-you-put-that-on-your-cv\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T09:46:37","slug":"how-do-you-put-that-on-your-cv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/24\/how-do-you-put-that-on-your-cv\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Put That On Your CV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/classic_edition_move_out_of_yo.php#c176668\">comment by Anton Sherwood<\/a>: Have you ever seen an episode of <cite>Star Trek<\/cite> with a particularly bad bit of technobabble, and said to yourself &#8220;You know, I&#8217;d be willing to fact-check their scripts for a few hundred bucks&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davekrieger.net\/Waves\/\">Dave Krieger did just that<\/a>, and it wasn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be. I&#8217;m going to be charitable, and assume he wasn&#8217;t there for the episode where a planet&#8217;s temperature is reported as &#8220;-290 Celsius&#8221; (or seventeen degrees <strong>below<\/strong> absolute zero&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>It beats what I used to do for extra money in grad school, though. I used to proctor the MCAT&#8217;s, among other standardized tests. It paid $175 for about eight hours of a Saturday, and you got to spend that time in a room full of pre-meds on the verge of a nervous breakdown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a comment by Anton Sherwood: Have you ever seen an episode of Star Trek with a particularly bad bit of technobabble, and said to yourself &#8220;You know, I&#8217;d be willing to fact-check their scripts for a few hundred bucks&#8230;&#8221; Well, Dave Krieger did just that, and it wasn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/24\/how-do-you-put-that-on-your-cv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Do You Put That On Your CV?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}