{"id":163,"date":"2004-03-13T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-14T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-03-13T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-14T05:37:00","slug":"beeg-tee-vee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Beeg Tee Vee."},"content":{"rendered":"

I got my friend Greg to help me pick up a new TV for my parents. My sister is coming to visit, and she doesn’t think she can survive without a TV. It’s stressful enough here without it, I guess. Well, instead of buying an HDTV-ready TV, I just bought a “cheapie” Toshiba. HDTV-ready sets are over $900! Well, I was all set to buy a 32″ Toshiba for $407, but after seeing it near a 27″ Toshiba, I thought the difference wasn’t obvious, and being non-obvious it certainly wasn’t worth $158. The 27″ Toshiba was only $249! And they didn’t care about selling anything extra at BestBuy. Just get a cart and run it to the checkout stand. Whee!<\/p>\n

And now I can’t remember what else I was going to talk about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got my friend Greg to help me pick up a new TV for my parents. My sister is coming to visit, and she doesn’t think she can survive without a TV. It’s stressful enough here without it, I guess. Well, instead of buying an HDTV-ready TV, I just bought a “cheapie” Toshiba. HDTV-ready sets are over $900! Well, I was all set to buy a 32″ Toshiba for $407, but after seeing it near a 27″ Toshiba, I thought the difference wasn’t obvious, and being non-obvious it certainly wasn’t worth $158. The 27″ Toshiba was only $249! And they didn’t care about selling anything extra at BestBuy. Just get … Continue reading Beeg Tee Vee.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}