{"id":19883,"date":"2011-01-17T22:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/unblogged-bits-mon-17-jan-11-2230.html"},"modified":"2013-06-07T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T22:52:07","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-17-jan-11-2230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/unblogged-bits-mon-17-jan-11-2230.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 17-Jan-11 2230)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….<\/p>\n
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  1. Why and How I Switched to a Standing Desk<\/a> – Tempted to see if there’s a way I could do this in my office, given the nature of the furniture.<\/li>\n
  2. China Takes Smart Grid Lead With Projected $61.4 Billion Market<\/a> – Yeehaw! But we’re still number one in butt-kickin’ exceptionalism!<\/li>\n
  3. First ever trailer for BBC’s post-apocalyptic series Outcasts<\/a> – Ooooh … yeah, this looks like it has a nice, desperate, man-against-man vibe that BSG, at its most gripping, had.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Why and How I Switched to a Standing Desk – Tempted to see if there’s a way I could do this in my office, given the nature of the furniture. China Takes Smart Grid Lead With Projected $61.4 Billion … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 17-Jan-11 2230)”<\/span><\/a><\/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":[20,21,380,16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech","category-job-jollies","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-potpourri","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49920,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/on-american-exceptionalism-and-eccentric-dolts.html","url_meta":{"origin":19883,"position":0},"title":"On American Exceptionalism and eccentric dolts","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Mar-15 3:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"I suspect that the ever more strident cries of the United States being unique and superior to all other nations ever come because of a growing realization that we are not.There are a lot of things I love about my country, and many of our ideals are second to none.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39643,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/12\/rt-bassooncpa-america-except.html","url_meta":{"origin":19883,"position":1},"title":"RT @BassoonCPA: America except…","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Nov-13 5:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @BassoonCPA: America exceptionalism. The rest of the world waits a month. RT @jeremyhobson Happy 11-12-13!","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49691,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/26\/not-forgetting-the-past-but-denying-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":19883,"position":2},"title":"Not forgetting the past, but denying it","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Feb-15 12:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"On Obama, patriotism, anti-colonialism, history, and exceptionalism.An excellent essay.\"You don\u2019t teach future business people how to run a company by only showing them pictures of John D. Rockefeller and Bill Gates. You don\u2019t teach future doctors by only showing them happy cheerful healthy people. You don\u2019t teach military officers how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26110,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/mitt-the-national-anthem-and-american-exceptionalism.html","url_meta":{"origin":19883,"position":3},"title":"Mitt, the National Anthem, and American Exceptionalism","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Feb-12 2:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The weird thing about Mitt's mistatements about the origins of, and American uniqueness in, putting hand over heart during the national anthem is that it's relatively trivial on the face of it, but shows such an annoying disregard for facts (or for research). It's weak tea jingoism ... which, now\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20273,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/20\/unblogged-bits-sun-20-feb-11-0430.html","url_meta":{"origin":19883,"position":4},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 20-Feb-11 0430)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 20-Feb-11 4:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... The only chart you need on American exceptionalism - Yeah, but GOD thinks's we're Number One, so who are going to believe, GOD, or some stupid \"International Monetary Fund\" multi-measure chart? The REAL Death\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Media Moguls"","block_context":{"text":"Media Moguls","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-moguls"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19177,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/10\/unblogged-bits-wed-10-nov-10-2230.html","url_meta":{"origin":19883,"position":5},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 10-Nov-10 2230)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Nov-10 10:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... Chef Doesn't Quite Appreciate Reviews From Inbred, Jobless, Bored Yelp Users - While I have no doubt that there are some \"amateur\" restaurant reviewers who look for reasons to bitch, many others (like myself)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883","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=19883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37619,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883\/revisions\/37619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}