{"id":904,"date":"2008-08-14T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/08\/14\/the-silhouette-of-a-martian-machine\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T14:30:00","slug":"the-silhouette-of-a-martian-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/08\/14\/the-silhouette-of-a-martian-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The silhouette of a Martian machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;grown-up&#8221; moment for the week: not bidding on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lego.com\/dan\/info\/default.asp?page=pressdetail&#038;contentid=3478&#038;countrycode=2057&#038;yearcode=2004&#038;archive=true\" target=\"_new\">Lego Mars Rover<\/a> on eBay even though it came to $10 below retail. I just don&#8217;t need to be spending $85 on Lego right now. But I thought about it for a second.<\/p>\n<p>Worked on a shell script today which will automate and streamline installation and troubleshooting of our backup services. I keep forgetting how much I love writing code, especially the bit where it executes and everything works properly and I feel like Dr. Frankenstein shouting &#8220;It&#8217;s alive!!&#8221; I caught the coding bug when the TRS-80s came out, and I&#8217;ve never gotten over it.<\/p>\n<p>I headed in to work early today, to help install a glut of new monitors which arrived. Not my usual assignment, but I wanted to help out, and the monitors were the lightest of the equipment to be installed. On the other hand, that does mean a lot of crawling under desks, and even a 22-inch flatscreen isn&#8217;t that light after you&#8217;ve lifted the tenth one onto a desk. I&#8217;m a little tired.<\/p>\n<p>Going to try to get in touch with Mom again tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;grown-up&#8221; moment for the week: not bidding on a Lego Mars Rover on eBay even though it came to $10 below retail. I just don&#8217;t need to be spending $85 on Lego right now. But I thought about it for a second. Worked on a shell script today which will automate and streamline installation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,50,65,18,13],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-coding","tag-exercise","tag-modeling","tag-technology","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-eA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}