{"id":4359,"date":"2010-12-21T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2010-12-21T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T07:19:09","slug":"why-learn-something-new-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"Why learn something new every day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve gained five pounds lately (measuring first thing in the morning like I usually do) and I think I blame Sean and his vegan ways. It&#8217;s causing so much stress that I&#8217;m putting on weight. Someone has to make up for all the meat he&#8217;s not eating (though he never did eat bacon, the tastiest of meats). It surely couldn&#8217;t be stress from work.<\/p>\n<p>I was still feeling slightly off today. A few more people were out sick from work and I left early and took what turned into an hour-and-a-half nap. I still went to the gym. I even ended up staying late, trying to fix the computer. Not their fault, I get engrossed in things like that and am loath to let a computer get the best of me. But I learned something new doing it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To fsck Mac OS X, boot holding Command-S and you get into single-user mode. If you don&#8217;t understand that, I&#8217;m not telling you any more because it&#8217;s dangerous.<\/li>\n<li>To get a root certificate on to the iPhone (like the ones from CAcert) email it to yourself. Duh. I&#8217;ve been trying for WEEKS to get the root certificate onto the iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of reverse-engineering the driveway monitor for my sister&#8217;s front porch to try to get it to be less sensitive, just mount it ABOVE the doorway pointing down. (Duh again.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t learned to go to sleep on time. Still not Xmas, so Santa hasn&#8217;t not brought me my common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve gained five pounds lately (measuring first thing in the morning like I usually do) and I think I blame Sean and his vegan ways. It&#8217;s causing so much stress that I&#8217;m putting on weight. Someone has to make up for all the meat he&#8217;s not eating (though he never did eat bacon, the tastiest of meats). It surely couldn&#8217;t be stress from work. I was still feeling slightly off today. A few more people were out sick from work and I left early and took what turned into an hour-and-a-half nap. I still went to the gym. I even ended up staying late, trying to fix the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why learn something new every day?<\/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-4359","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\/4359","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=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}