{"id":161,"date":"2005-06-28T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2005-06-28T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T12:29:00","slug":"its-not-a-toilet-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/28\/its-not-a-toilet-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not a toilet seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Washington Post<\/i> has a story today on computers as nostalgic collectibles: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/27\/AR2005062701770.html?sub=AR\">Geek Chic: Old Computers As Collectibles<\/a>&#8221; (bugmenot login: youareidiots@mailintor.com \/ password). <\/p>\n<p>And okay, I readily admit that I have some old technologies lying about because I just like old technologies. But the article libels my cute Mac iBook: &#8220;He keeps his circa-1999 iBook &#8212; the one that looks like a toilet seat &#8212; in the basement, next to one of those tiki lamps that repel mosquitoes.&#8221; It&#8217;s <b>not<\/b> a toilet seat, Jose Antonio Vargas, and I hope you get boils on your butt for your evil lies.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tag\"><br \/>\nTags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/computer+collectibles\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">computer collectibles<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/iBook\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">iBook<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/technology+news\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">technology news<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has a story today on computers as nostalgic collectibles: &#8220;Geek Chic: Old Computers As Collectibles&#8221; (bugmenot login: youareidiots@mailintor.com \/ password). And okay, I readily admit that I have some old technologies lying about because I just like old technologies. But the article libels my cute Mac iBook: &#8220;He keeps his circa-1999 iBook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-2B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}