{"id":433,"date":"2011-01-13T06:30:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/01\/13\/110113_randomthursday\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T18:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:31:02","slug":"110113_randomthursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/01\/13\/110113_randomthursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday &#8211; The Truncated Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta lotta stuff about to happen, so here are just a few things that caught my eye lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/thirtythreepointthree\">33.3 Art Show<\/a> features the re-imagination by 33 designers (plus one child, hence the .3) of various album covers from back when vinyl king. Most of the designers are from the American Heartland &#8211; Iowa and Kansas and Oklahoma &#8211; with a smattering of more exotic locales thrown in.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">We&#8217;ve been searching for something to mount on a rather large expanse of bare wall in our dining area. <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/fYOJi.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">This<\/a> has great appeal to me, but *someone* seems to be a bit narrow-minded and has vetoed it.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">At first glance, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pogoplug.com\/home-en-buy-now-pogoplug-pro.html?#\/assets\/PogoplugPro\/ProFront_player.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">Pogoplug Pro<\/a> seems to be a must-have device for sharing large files across the &#8216;net without using a service like Dropbox or Box.net. But, frankly, the user reviews haven&#8217;t been kind. Any Gazette readers tried it?<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">I don&#8217;t have one of the new square versions of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodnano\/\">iPod nano<\/a>, but it would almost be worth buying one just to get one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/156936\/2011\/01\/nano_wristband.html\">these wrist bands<\/a> that let it do double duty as a watch.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">And, last but certainly not least, which of these is different from the others: Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Janet Jackson, Keith Urban, Clay Walker, and Jason Aldean. Well, according to the organizers of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, absolutely nothing, because they&#8217;ve all been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/tx\/7374463.html\">booked to perform<\/a> during the two-week run. I can&#8217;t even come up with a good joke about which rodeo event is Jackson&#8217;s favorite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta lotta stuff about to happen, so here are just a few things that caught my eye lately: The 33.3 Art Show features the re-imagination by 33 designers (plus one child, hence the .3) of various album covers from back when vinyl king. Most of the designers are from the American Heartland &#8211; Iowa and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/01\/13\/110113_randomthursday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Thursday &#8211; The Truncated Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thursday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9141,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/9141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}