{"id":2795,"date":"2009-06-17T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2009-06-17T23:28:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T06:28:25","slug":"a-special-kind-of-sucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2795","title":{"rendered":"A special kind of sucker."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I&#8217;m Todd and I&#8217;m an Apple fanboi.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8221;m a big sucker for liking my Apple stuff. It&#8217;s a little more expensive and sometimes just as frustrating as my PeeCee trash, but I&#8217;m a computer geek that can deal with most of the grief. I hate having to keep a version of Windows on my Mac laptop so I can do those few things that require Windows, but at least I have that option. I&#8217;d much rather sit around and be smug about my Mac than have to curse at a Windows machine all the time. I have to do that at work already and I don&#8217;t need to do it for my leisure time too.<\/p>\n<p>But I bought this nice shiny new big monitor &mdash; not huge like my sister&#8217;s, but big enough &mdash; and I came to the realization that the connectors work with the new laptop I just ordered, but don&#8217;t work with my old laptop. I was hoping that I could use the little goofy things like the new wireless keyboard and the monitor while I was waiting for the new laptop, but I guess I&#8217;m SOL. Also, I think the correct thing to say about this is, &#8220;D&#8217;oh!&#8221; The monitor, while expensive, was made to hook up to the new laptop and has a camera, speakers, and a magsafe power adapter. I&#8217;m good to go when it arrives.<\/p>\n<p>I was getting relationship advice at the gym again, and I was reminded that I&#8217;m no spring chicken and not getting any younger and that if I didn&#8217;t step things up that I&#8217;d be dead before anything happened. To follow the tortured animal metaphors further (or is it farther?) a leopard can&#8217;t change its spots. And speaking of Leopard, I think I&#8217;ll be off to play with my Mac some more. Instead of sleeping, like I should, I&#8217;ll probably be playing Peggle. Oh, the life of a single geek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I&#8217;m Todd and I&#8217;m an Apple fanboi. I know I&#8221;m a big sucker for liking my Apple stuff. It&#8217;s a little more expensive and sometimes just as frustrating as my PeeCee trash, but I&#8217;m a computer geek that can deal with most of the grief. I hate having to keep a version of Windows on my Mac laptop so I can do those few things that require Windows, but at least I have that option. I&#8217;d much rather sit around and be smug about my Mac than have to curse at a Windows machine all the time. I have to do that at work already and I don&#8217;t need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A special kind of sucker.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}