{"id":234,"date":"2007-05-31T06:49:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T06:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/05\/31\/random-thursday-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T06:49:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T06:49:44","slug":"random-thursday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/05\/31\/random-thursday-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blog remainders from this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of screws I drove using two drills to mount my AC last night: 25<\/li>\n<li>Number of people who have announced their canidacy for president that I would personally like to see as president: 0<\/li>\n<li>Celebrity who really surprised me by not being a complete moron on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/billmaher\/\" title=\"Real Time with Bill Maher\">Bill Maher&#39;s show<\/a>: Ben Aflec<\/li>\n<li>Emails in my Inbox that currently need a reply: 14<\/li>\n<li>Pieces of back up software I&#39;ve tested since I read my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelleb.com\/2007\/05\/11\/think-good-thoughts-for-me-also-this-is-a-psa\/\" title=\"Rachelle's Lost Photos\">Rachelle lost some of her photos<\/a>: 4<\/li>\n<li>Things in the Internet\/Tech space that have not impressed me: <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=143+Varick+Street,+New+York+,+NY&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=40.817312,82.265625&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=40.727747,-74.005752&amp;spn=0.004781,0.010042&amp;z=17&amp;om=1&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=40.725962,-74.005741&amp;cbp=1,287.819071543408,0.537167738478028,2\" title=\"My office\">Google Maps Street View<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.facebook.com\/blog.php?post=2415922130\" title=\"Facebook Platform\">Facebook&#39;s Open Source Platform announcement<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/main-event\/jobs-v-gates-the-movie-264752.php\" title=\"Steve v. Bill\">people who engage in the Microsoft v. Apple debate<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Things that have: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superdeluxe.com\" title=\"Super Deluxe\">Superdeluxe.com<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/sticker-shock\/video-of-bill-gates-showing-off-his-expensive-table-264453.php?autoplay=true\" title=\"Microsoft Table\">Microsoft Table<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gears.google.com\/\" title=\"Google Gears\">Google Gears<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\/msbizcard99922.jpg\" title=\"Blue Monster\">Hugh MacLeod&#39;s work for Microsoft<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And finally, a tidbit that makes me happy. My Internet company has been expanding into Europe with varied success. We are doing particularly bad in Italy. We&#39;ve found some market research that indicates that the problem is that Internet use is just very low in Italy. This makes me so happy. <a href=\"\/archives\/000781.html\" title=\"Italy\">I&#39;ve been to Italy<\/a> and the thought of wasting one second in that country being online make me spit out my Montepulciano. Italy is just cooler than where you are now, <em>especially <\/em>if you are on MySpace.    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog remainders from this week:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}