{"id":2652,"date":"2011-09-11T16:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T22:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2011-09-11T16:08:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T22:08:03","slug":"last-machine-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/09\/11\/last-machine-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"Last machine standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/movies\/tron--dumont.jpg\" alt=\"The Tower Guardian?!?\" class=alignright \/>Just a quick note &#8211; I may be a little bit scarce on the interwebs in the coming week or two because the last reliable desktop machine in my house went belly-up last night.  I&#8217;m left with the tablet, the MobilePro, a desktop machine that can&#8217;t maintain a network connection for crap, an old laptop that has no battery and requires a second person to stand behind the machine holding the power supply cord in the jack at a very specific awkward angle&#8230; oh, and the web browser on the Wii.  <em>Yay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m literally expecting to be released from my job at the teevee station almost any day now (with a modest severance payoff to come right behind that), I&#8217;m planning on blowing just a little bit of money to buy or build a replacement machine, but it&#8217;ll take a little bit of time to get up to speed.  All video, writing, graphic design and web projects are &#8220;on hold&#8221; until then because the equipment I was using to work on them is dead as a doorknob.  Bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s new stuff already written for theLogBook.com next week &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/menu\/\">just drop by the site itself to see what the daily special is<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note &#8211; I may be a little bit scarce on the interwebs in the coming week or two because the last reliable desktop machine in my house went belly-up last night. I&#8217;m left with the tablet, the MobilePro, a desktop machine that can&#8217;t maintain a network connection for crap, an old laptop that has no battery and requires a second person to stand behind the machine holding the power supply cord in the jack at a very specific awkward angle&#8230; oh, and the web browser on the Wii. Yay. As I&#8217;m literally expecting to be released from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","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=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}