{"id":22244,"date":"2024-09-30T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22244"},"modified":"2024-09-30T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T17:58:19","slug":"rip-dikembe-mutombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/rip-dikembe-mutombo\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Dikembe Mutombo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[I know this note seems supremely off topic, but bear with me.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry to hear of the passing of larger-than-life NBA star Dikembe Mutombo. He inspired the name of a &#8220;Project Mutombo&#8221; at Google, which was meant to block unintended sharing of content outside of one&#8217;s company. Unrelated (AFAIK he never knew of the project), back in 2015 I happened to see him biking around campus\u2014dwarfing a hapless Google Bike &amp; making its back tire cartoonishly flat. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mutombo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"588\" height=\"929\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mutombo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mutombo.jpg 588w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mutombo-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>RIP, big guy. Thanks for the memories, GIFs, and inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dikembe Mutombo Geico Commercial (2013)\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W4WWvMMblaY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I know this note seems supremely off topic, but bear with me.] I&#8217;m sorry to hear of the passing of larger-than-life NBA star Dikembe Mutombo. He inspired the name of a &#8220;Project Mutombo&#8221; at Google, which was meant to block unintended sharing of content outside of one&#8217;s company. Unrelated (AFAIK he never knew of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22246,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions\/22246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}