{"id":379,"date":"2005-01-05T23:37:53","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T07:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2005-01-06T00:37:53","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T07:37:53","slug":"the-radioshark-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"The RadioShark arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sun asked if she&#8217;d forgotten my birthday but, no, she remembered it&#8217;s in APRIL. So that means it took eight months for this stupid thing to arrive. It&#8217;s &#8220;just&#8221; a USB connected radio with some recording features, but now I can record some NPR shows so I can listen to them later.<\/p>\n<p>Not much I can say about work or the gym, except that one of my old bosses is often there and he&#8217;s buff as hell now. After he sold the internet startup I worked at, he hiked the Pacific Crest Trail solo. He wears shirts from some military combat camp where he went to play soldier. Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Carolyn appears to have eaten something horrible that doesn&#8217;t want to digest peacefully in her stomach. How does one get ginger ale delivered to your door when you&#8217;re sick and away from people who&#8217;d do that for you? I suggested safeway.com but there aren&#8217;t any Safeways in Chicago. And gone are the dot-bomb delivery services of homegrocer.com and even better, kozmo.com. Now that I think of it, she could have ordered the soda from a pizza delivery place, but who wants to call around to pizza delivery places looking for ginger ale when you&#8217;re tossing your cookies? I&#8217;ll have to think about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun asked if she&#8217;d forgotten my birthday but, no, she remembered it&#8217;s in APRIL. So that means it took eight months for this stupid thing to arrive. It&#8217;s &#8220;just&#8221; a USB connected radio with some recording features, but now I can record some NPR shows so I can listen to them later. Not much I can say about work or the gym, except that one of my old bosses is often there and he&#8217;s buff as hell now. After he sold the internet startup I worked at, he hiked the Pacific Crest Trail solo. He wears shirts from some military combat camp where he went to play soldier. Yeesh. Oh, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The RadioShark arrived!<\/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-379","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\/379","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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}