{"id":13587,"date":"2008-11-07T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T04:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/11\/07\/ballsy.html"},"modified":"2008-11-07T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T04:24:31","slug":"ballsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/ballsy.html","title":{"rendered":"Ballsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oobject has fifteen videos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oobject.com\/category\/15-videos-of-amazing-rolling-ball-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\">different &#8220;ball run&#8221; contraptions<\/a>. This one&#8217;s only the first n the list,&nbsp;and it&#8217;s pretty faboo.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0dT8pdv0LVY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonder anyone there gets any work done. I could spend all day just watching this thing.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5078458\/15-rolling-ball-sculptures-in-action\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oobject has fifteen videos of different &#8220;ball run&#8221; contraptions. This one&#8217;s only the first n the list,&nbsp;and it&#8217;s pretty faboo. &nbsp; It&#8217;s a wonder anyone there gets any work done&#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":"","_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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131264,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/a-faboo-50th-anniversary-star-trek-tos-poster.html","url_meta":{"origin":13587,"position":0},"title":"A faboo 50th Anniversary &quot;Star Trek&quot; TOS poster","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Aug-16 6:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am sorely tempted. This would look great in my office.[1] Especially since I recognize all of these folk. And they are all wonderful. And I can show off my geekiness to my colleagues.(Okay, I take it back -- I don't recognize the spacecraft right below the Romulan Bird of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d274a292-08e7-419e-aa58-02531f279a81imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d274a292-08e7-419e-aa58-02531f279a81imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d274a292-08e7-419e-aa58-02531f279a81imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20007,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/unblogged-bits-fri-4-feb-11-1630.html","url_meta":{"origin":13587,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Fri.  4-Feb-11 1630)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Feb-11 4:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... Bill O\u2019Reilly: tidal bore | Bad Astronomy - The God of the Gaps is poor science (and shoddy theology). Irish Apes: Tactics of De-Humanization - A lot of people today really have no idea\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129149,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-straight-no-chaser.html","url_meta":{"origin":13587,"position":2},"title":"The &quot;Twelve Days of Christmas,&quot; Straight No Chaser","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Dec-15 4:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to +The Bruce, Mile High for reminding me of this faboo a cappella caroling session. 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And types of starships. And people on starships. And eleventy-dozen little moments from movies and TV shows about starships that had me smiling many, many times.Originally from 2012, but first seen by me today, h\/t +Doyce Testerman.(https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bTGdGKEEiYE and https:\/\/vimeo.com\/46927209 ... backstory at http:\/\/bironic.livejournal.com\/290689.html ... clips and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587","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=13587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}