{"id":284,"date":"2004-09-14T23:25:54","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T06:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:19:20","slug":"out-of-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Out of sync."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Go-Go&#8217;s song &#8220;Head Over Heels,&#8221; Belinda Carlisle sings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Head over heels, where should I go?<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t stop myself, out of control.<br \/>\nHead over heels, no time to think<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like the whole world&#8217;s out of sync.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I used to think the last line was, &#8220;This microphone is out of sync.&#8221; Now, as an electrical engineer, I knew that microphones aren&#8217;t synchronized to anything and that couldn&#8217;t have been right.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I can no longer go to the gym on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Mondays I have to be home for Monday Night Football. I can&#8217;t believe how many people seem upset when I tell them I like watching football. First off, there&#8217;s no significant other demanding my time on Sundays or Monday nights. Second, I&#8217;m a godless heathen, so football is not keeping me from my scheduled religious duties. And third, I like watching football.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and for those of you who ride bikes, search the web for how crooks can open your Kryptonite locks with Bic pens. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeforums.net\/showthread.php?t=66128\">Those locks are useless now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Go-Go&#8217;s song &#8220;Head Over Heels,&#8221; Belinda Carlisle sings: Head over heels, where should I go? Can&#8217;t stop myself, out of control. Head over heels, no time to think It&#8217;s like the whole world&#8217;s out of sync. I used to think the last line was, &#8220;This microphone is out of sync.&#8221; Now, as an electrical engineer, I knew that microphones aren&#8217;t synchronized to anything and that couldn&#8217;t have been right. In any case, I can no longer go to the gym on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Mondays I have to be home for Monday Night Football. I can&#8217;t believe how many people seem upset when I tell them I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out of sync.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","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\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}