{"id":214,"date":"2008-12-22T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-12-22T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T15:56:24","slug":"the-pencil-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/the-pencil-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pencil Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Quite a while ago, my good friend Jason started a Twitter feed about his cat,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sockington\" target=\"blank\">Sockington<\/a>. The feed has not only become extremely popular, with over 4,000 followers, it&#8217;s also become famous to the point of being featured on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/06\/the-age-of-tweety-cats\/\" target=\"blank\">New York Times\u00a0blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up the illusion that the cat was making constant Twitter updates, Jason even wrote a script that uploads entries at random times. Needless to say, this is precisely the kind of time-wasting activity that I thrive on when I&#8217;m not\u2014you know\u2014<em>writing<\/em>. I wanted in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-209\" title=\"blackwarrior_blog_version\" src=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/blackwarrior_blog_version-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"blackwarrior_blog_version\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/blackwarrior_blog_version-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/blackwarrior_blog_version-373x300.jpg 373w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/blackwarrior_blog_version.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I mulled it over for a couple of weeks. If I did this, what kind of feed would I have? I certainly didn&#8217;t want to update the world every five minutes about\u00a0my own\u00a0procrastinating sh-t , nor did I want to write about another f-cking cat.<\/p>\n<p>I love Sweetie (my cat), but honestly, she&#8217;s a bitchy little bore. Like a few ex-girlfriends of mine.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted a challenge. A POV character you wouldn&#8217;t normally consider. A POV character the reader would be loath to get emotionally invested in.<\/p>\n<p>Like a pencil. Maybe my and John Steinbeck&#8217;s preferred pencil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/miradowarrior\" target=\"blank\">A Mirado Black Warrior pencil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And like Sockington, Mirado is slickly making his updates using Jason&#8217;s script. I pre-wrote a month&#8217;s worth of Tweets so the pencil can post updates 2x a day at random times.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy. And tell your friends. I want a million followers.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a while ago, my good friend Jason started a Twitter feed about his cat,\u00a0Sockington. The feed has not only become extremely popular, with over 4,000 followers, it&#8217;s also become famous to the point of being featured on a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0blog. To keep up the illusion that the cat was making constant Twitter updates, Jason &#8230; <a title=\"The Pencil Twitter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/the-pencil-twitter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Pencil Twitter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","category-writingexperiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}