{"id":203,"date":"2006-03-26T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5265.temp.domains\/~brucewi2\/photos\/2006\/03\/26\/fw-news-from-mn-1-15-2004\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T20:54:35","slug":"fw-news-from-mn-1-15-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/fw-news-from-mn-1-15-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"FW: News from MN, 1\/15\/2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Ho,<\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentines to all.   I spent the part of this weekend moving our<br \/>little radio station ( http:\/\/misterhouse.net:8000 ) to the same Linux box<br \/>our web server is on so I could free up a computer to give to our friends<br \/>(Coreliee and Ray) who have struck a deal with the local utility company to<br \/>install a pilot project active solar panel system on their house and need a<br \/>system to monitor things like temperature, sunlight, and power to\/from the<br \/>house, so they buddied up with their friendly engineer who knows how to do<br \/>such things and viola &#8230; a computer system that can monitor energy data and<br \/>send it on to the power company,  all in less than one massive one illegally<br \/>long and totally unreadable sentence \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>On Friday I was a science fair judge, all in one totally short an<br \/>detail-less sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of this weekend I have spent with Nick watching a batch of DVD&#8217;s.<br \/>When Nick and I go to rent DVD&#8217;s, I usually don&#8217;t get out of the store with<br \/>less than 5 DVDs, sometimes 6.   It is the deal I make with Nick.  He<br \/>drives, I rent.   Nick hates to drive, but he likes to watch movies, so<br \/>gradually he is learning to drive better.   At least to and from the video<br \/>store.   So instead of paying a driving instructor, we get to watch DVDs.<br \/>And sometimes we learn stuff from them.    If you watch enough movies, you<br \/>are pretty much guaranteed to learn something useful.   Take for example the<br \/>latest Star Trek movie, Nemesis.  We learned just how much Nick really<br \/>dislikes Star Trek movies.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Nick, shortly after Christmas, we started seeing more and more<br \/>of Nick, who instead of nightly raids on Everquest (an online computer game<br \/>that he has played for several years), was often seen reading a book or<br \/>wandering off to explore unknown snow banks in far away neighborhoods.<br \/>When I asked him &#8216;whatsup with Everquest&#8217;, he simply replied &#8216;I retired&#8217;.<br \/>He just up and quit.   At least he has stayed quit for over a month so far.<br \/>He figured it was time to try something different.   Us parents were most<br \/>happy for him, so I offered him to buy him a car as a reward.   Fortunately,<br \/>as expected, he declined \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Ho, Happy Valentines to all. I spent the part of this weekend moving ourlittle radio station ( http:\/\/misterhouse.net:8000 ) to the same Linux boxour web server is on so I could free up a computer to give to our friends(Coreliee and Ray) who have struck a deal with the local utility company toinstall a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}