{"id":10810,"date":"2007-06-27T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/06\/27\/potpourri-for-a-wednesday-on-vacation.html"},"modified":"2007-06-27T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T14:34:20","slug":"potpourri_for_a_wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/potpourri_for_a_wednesday.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for a Wednesday on Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Giant Robot!\" height=\"59\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg\" width=\"64\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Robo-Dave suggests:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housewivestarot.com\/housewivesbeta.html\" target=\"_blank\">Housewives Tarot<\/a>. <small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/secret-hideout.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/mysterious-mysteries.html\" target=\"_blank\">De<\/a>)<\/small><\/li>\n<li> There are already various patron saints of travelers (including my own patron, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Christopher\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher<\/a>, feast day or not), but the Vatican thinks a more commanding set of guidelines is needed &#8212; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/headline\/world\/4901513.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ten Commandments of Driving<\/a> (hey, the last set ended up prompting a forty year road trip &#8230;).&nbsp; Though, all kidding aside, it&#8217;s not a bad set of guidlelines. <small>(via Avocet)<\/small><\/li>\n<li>Same sex couples that like pink and are adopting babies!  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/gloucestershire\/6679315.stm\">&#8216;Tain&#8217;t natural!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/10\/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps\/\">Finland, Finland, Finland <\/a>&#8230; A map of the US with the states renamed for countries with a similar GDP.  Not sure the Canadians will appreciate being compared to Texas &#8230; but I suppose equating California and France makes a certain sense &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robo-Dave suggests: The Housewives Tarot. (via De) There are already various patron saints of travelers (including my own patron, Christopher, feast day or not), but the Vatican thinks a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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}},"categories":[5,10,25,16,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-gay-stuff","category-potpourri","category-religion","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10819,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/potpourri_for_a_monday_on.html","url_meta":{"origin":10810,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for a Monday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Jun-07 7:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: DOF presents a very nice article on getting the most bang for the buck in various efforts to stop global warming.\u00a0 Worth a read. Iwo Jima is...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10799,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/potpourri_for_a_thursday.html","url_meta":{"origin":10810,"position":1},"title":"Potpourri for a Thursday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Jun-07 9:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: I don't have any particular interest in changing over to Safari as a browser ... but it's welcome as another innovation-driving competitor in the Windows web browser realm....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10797,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/potpourri_for_another_fri.html","url_meta":{"origin":10810,"position":2},"title":"Potpourri for another Friday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Jun-07 9:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: New Baby Names. I'm a big believer in personal freedom and parental autonomy and all that, but ... yeesh, I feel sorry for some of these kids. Azorryona,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10824,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/22\/potpourri_for_a_friday_on.html","url_meta":{"origin":10810,"position":3},"title":"Potpourri for a Friday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Jun-07 7:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: FAA Flight Delays, with links to Security Check-In Delays.\u00a0 The site is nearly inoperable in Firefox, alas; use IE. (via Ginny) Unk,Tantor!\u00a0 A Tarzan dictionary. (via Randy)\u00a0...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10796,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/30\/potpourri_for_another_sat.html","url_meta":{"origin":10810,"position":4},"title":"Potpourri for another Saturday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Jun-07 7:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: The Sins of PowerPoint. For the love of God, send this to all your business associates. How to maintain classroom discipline ... 1950s style. Folks who do pot...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Job Jollies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10822,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/24\/potpourri_for_a_sunday_on.html","url_meta":{"origin":10810,"position":5},"title":"Potpourri for a Sunday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 24-Jun-07 7:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: Doesn't matter if you're a war time president or a peace time president, or if history likes you or not -- expect your approval ratings to tank...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}