{"id":38,"date":"2006-04-23T07:39:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-03-31T20:37:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T18:37:47","slug":"the-hazards-of-being-a-download-hampster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/the-hazards-of-being-a-download-hampster-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The hazards of being a download hampster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my more endearing character traits is that I&#8217;m always trying to download the internets. If you&#8217;d like to learn how to program in Pascal for paper-mill machinery, I probably have the documents and compilers lying around somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Before I had a computer with a connection I would go to the library once a week and walk among the shelves and pick out whatever books caught my fancy; When it comes to dedication to books I&#8217;m quite the polybookamist &#8211; I&#8217;d end up having twenty books on different topics at any given time. The only Dewey decimals I wasn&#8217;t into were the ones between 796 &#038; 798. (sports)<\/p>\n<p>Now, every time I get my hands on a connection I end up downloading everything that either 1) interests me, or 2) I don&#8217;t know what it is but it sounds interesting.<\/p>\n<p>This has of course some drawbacks. For example, I should have looked up what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ephebophilia\"><i>ephebophilia<\/i><\/a> meant before downloading a 200 mb zip-file named <i>epheb<\/i> with the description &#8220;<i>ephebophilia junk<\/i>&#8220;. I end up with a couple of hundred images of some post-pubescent girl looking slightly amused. <strong>What the fuck<\/strong>. Although there wasn&#8217;t any porn involved (well, I only looked at five or so of the images, so I can&#8217;t tell) the sheer volume of images taken from someone who&#8217;s obviously taller than the girl is kinda twisted my head a bit; I can see this being sort of gateway-erotica to more overt kiddie porn.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t fucking believe I&#8217;ve tainted my hard drive downloading it, and since it was over Bittorrent, I&#8217;ve actually helped others downloading it as well. Next time, I&#8217;m either looking up any words I don&#8217;t understand, or reading the info-page before downloading anything.<\/p>\n<p>The torrent&#8217;s info-page is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/details.php?id=3457951\">http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/details.php?id=3457951<\/a>, and actually describes what he torrent contains. For fucks sake; I honestly thought they were body-modification files. Like, gross piercings and subdermal implants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my more endearing character traits is that I&#8217;m always trying to download the internets. If you&#8217;d like to learn how to program in Pascal for paper-mill machinery, I probably have the documents and compilers lying around somewhere. Before I had a computer with a connection I would go to the library once a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/the-hazards-of-being-a-download-hampster-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The hazards of being a download hampster<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[675,674,673],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-found","tag-damnation","tag-omfg","tag-things-are-not-what-they-seem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}