{"id":1872,"date":"2010-04-09T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2010-04-09T08:38:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:38:01","slug":"surly-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2010\/04\/09\/surly-knot\/","title":{"rendered":"You. are. kidding. me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Facebook sidebar ads, now I <em>know <\/em>you&#8217;re screwing with me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q1-10\/urkidding.gif\" title=\"Want a grant?  So does this poor old fella.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In other news, <strong>the Avid lives!<\/strong>  I&#8217;ll be picking it up this weekend, in what will almost certainly be the <em>least<\/em> stressful thing I do all weekend.  I&#8217;m looking forward to having it back home and working &#8211; especially since we&#8217;re having more cold nights and I could use some heat in my room.  \ud83d\ude44 <\/p>\n<p>One other thing &#8211; admittedly very geeky &#8211; that has brought a smile to my face is this prop replica made by a friend who usually turns his talents to customizing action figures and the like:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q1-10\/blakes.jpg\" title=\"Down and safe\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;give up?  This is, of course, a shockingly good replica of an original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/logbook\/blakes-7\/\">Blake&#8217;s 7<\/a> teleport bracelet.  About 23 years ago, I would&#8217;ve proudly worn this thing out in public.  \ud83d\ude06  For now, I&#8217;ll settle on displaying it next to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/earls-videos\/hal-9000-says-a-true-thing\/\">HAL-9000 prop<\/a>&#8230; at least until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/jcc\/\">Jump Cut City<\/a> goes back into production (oh, the screen time this thing would have gotten back then).  Many thanks to Hoosier Whovian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Facebook sidebar ads, now I know you&#8217;re screwing with me. In other news, the Avid lives! I&#8217;ll be picking it up this weekend, in what will almost certainly be the least stressful thing I do all weekend. I&#8217;m looking forward to having it back home and working &#8211; especially since we&#8217;re having more cold nights and I could use some heat in my room. \ud83d\ude44 One other thing &#8211; admittedly very geeky &#8211; that has brought a smile to my face is this prop replica made by a friend who usually turns his talents to customizing action figures and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37,30],"tags":[44,75,53],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-stuff","category-gadgetology","category-toybox","tag-avid","tag-blakes-7","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}