{"id":259,"date":"2007-08-05T15:53:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T23:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2007-08-05T15:53:36","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T23:53:36","slug":"german-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"German comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve been a derelict blogger since moving to MIT, allowing far, far too many of you to concentrate on work.  But today I&#8217;m back with some <em>quality<\/em> procrastination material.<\/p>\n<p>My colleague (and sometime \u00fcberliberal commenter on this blog) Aram Harrow points me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sdjt6Bl5qdY\">safety video for German forklift-truck drivers<\/a>, which was posted to YouTube with English subtitles.  As Aram says, it starts slow but is <em>definitely<\/em> worth watching to the end.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny: just this weekend, I was volunteering with the Cornell Alumni Association at the Greater Boston Food Bank.  My job was to unload 40-pound boxes of canned goods from a forklift truck and place them on a conveyor belt.  (And no, this is not something I&#8217;d normally do.  Normally I&#8217;d offer to write a check to pay for ten people stronger than I am to unload boxes for the needy.  Long story short, I was invited to do this by an individual of female persuasion.)<\/p>\n<p>The whole time I was unloading boxes, I too was a bit worried about forklift safety &#8212; but, as I now know, not <em>nearly<\/em> as worried as I should have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve been a derelict blogger since moving to MIT, allowing far, far too many of you to concentrate on work. But today I&#8217;m back with some quality procrastination material. My colleague (and sometime \u00fcberliberal commenter on this blog) Aram Harrow points me to a safety video for German forklift-truck drivers, which was posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-meatspace","category-procrastination"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}