{"id":11022,"date":"2007-04-23T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/23\/potpourri-for-500-alex-4.html"},"modified":"2007-04-23T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T18:41:07","slug":"potpourri_for_500_alex_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/potpourri_for_500_alex_4.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for $500, Alex!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quickie items I don’t have time to blog about more fully:<\/p>\n

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  1. “Who needs sleep?”  We do<\/a>, to build a gestalt <\/em>of the day’s events.<\/li>\n
  2. Cool Then-and-Now cityscape Flickr group<\/a>.  I love these things, and need to poke into it more.<\/li>\n
  3. Remarkably enough, this “The Year 2000 as Predicted from the Year 1900<\/a>” appears to be legit<\/a>.  Some of the items are remarkably prescient, others wildly off-base.<\/li>\n
  4. Why can’t Verizon understand the difference between 0.002 cents and 0.002 dollars<\/a>?  Well, their billing department seems to understand.<\/li>\n
  5. Man isn’t just the Hairless Ape, he’s the Running Ape<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. Censored Google Maps<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  7. Death to Blue LEDs<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Quickie items I don’t have time to blog about more fully: “Who needs sleep?”  We do, to build a gestalt of the day’s events. Cool Then-and-Now cityscape Flickr group.  I…<\/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":[35,20,17,16,6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-hi-tech","category-homeland-security","category-potpourri","category-science","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17218,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-mon-26-apr-2010-200am.html","url_meta":{"origin":11022,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Mon, 26 Apr 2010, 2:00AM","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Apr-10 12:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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Look Who's Joining Tancredo and Buchanan to Build A New Majority:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Potpourri"","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022","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=11022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}