{"id":754,"date":"2012-02-17T09:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2012\/02\/17\/120217-randomthursday\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T21:19:29","slug":"120217-randomthursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/02\/17\/120217-randomthursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday &#8211; The Friday Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few random observations, the primary benefits of which are to give me an excuse not to start working on our tax return:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\n<li>A talking head on The Today Show just referred to the gluten-free nutrition movement as being &#8220;glamatized.&#8221; Forgive my potential misspelling, but I claim immunity as that&#8217;s not, you know, a real word. See also: <i>glamorized<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.5em;\">We have most of our monthly bills set up on auto-pay and the biggest challenge is just remembering to record the deductions in our checkbook. I&#8217;m happy that all of our primary service providers offer this service, but some haven&#8217;t fully grasped the concept of user-friendliness. Not surprisingly, one of them is our cable provider, whom I won&#8217;t name but it starts with &#8220;Sudden&#8221; and ends with &#8220;link.&#8221; The problem is that Suddenlink&#8217;s email notifying us of the availability of our bill contains only a link to our online account, and no details regarding due date or amount. It&#8217;s highly annoying, having to log into their poorly designed website just to find out what they&#8217;re charging us this month. I can think of no logical reason for excluding invoice amount from their email notification. See also: <i>get a clue<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.5em;\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/racing\/news\/20120216\/kevin-harvick-daytona-notes\/?sct=hp_wr_a3&amp;eref=sihp\">this Sports Illustrated article<\/a>, racer Danica Patrick is getting sick and tired of people associating her with the term &#8220;sexy.&#8221; Now, for the record, I don&#8217;t find Ms. Patrick to be all that, but if she wants others to stop viewing her as a sex object, perhaps she should stop taking money from corporate panderers like GoDaddy.com to exude exactly that persona. See also: <i>hypocrisy<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecelebritycafe.com\/feature\/sony-apologizes-itunes-price-increase-whitney-houston-albums-uk-02-16-2012\">Sony is apologizing<\/a> for what it implies was an unauthorized price increase on Whitney Houston&#8217;s music purchased from Apple&#8217;s iTunes Store. You know, I got no problem with them doing this &#8211; the price hike, not the apology. Galleries do it all the time following the death of a famous artist; in fact, it&#8217;s expected, especially by private collectors who already own the artwork and see superimposed dollar signs when they look at it. And it&#8217;s not like Houston&#8217;s music is the equivalent of transplantable kidneys for sick puppies. See also: <i>capitalism<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.5em;\">Speaking of music, as I write this I&#8217;m listening to my new iPod nano via Bluetooth wireless headphones. &#8220;But, Eric,&#8221; you query, incredulously, &#8220;how is that possible, as the nano doesn&#8217;t have Bluetooth capability? Is this another of your bloggerly exaggerations?&#8221; I understand your skepticism, but for once, I&#8217;m not lying. I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/store.kokkia.com\/i10stinybluetoothipodtransmitterforipodiphoneipaditouchwithtrueappleauthenticationremotecontrolsandlocalipodiphoneipadvolumecon.aspx\">Kokkia&#8217;s i10s<\/a> (wow &#8211; they really invested big time in their creative naming process) Bluetooth iPod transmitter in conjunction with a set of Motorola wireless headphones.&nbsp;\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5em;\">The installation wasn&#8217;t without its quirks. First, the iPod displayed a message, &#8220;unsupported device.&#8221; But shortly thereafter, the music began. The only problem is that what was coming over the headphones wasn&#8217;t what was playing on the iPod. (The &#8216;pod was playing a Beatles tune, while the &#8216;phones were picking up a song by Eleven Hundred Springs.) I finally tracked the source of the music to my iPad that was in another room; the headphones had paired up with it instead of the iPod. Once I shut off the iPad&#8217;s Bluetooth, the i10s suddenly paired with the headphones and things work as advertised. Very cool. See also: <i>Geek lust<\/i><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/i10s.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of my iPod with Bluetooth transmitter\"><\/p>\n<p>I think everyone in Midland posted a photo of the sunset on February 9th, but I just now got around to downloading the pictures from the camera I keep in the truck for just such serendipitous scenes. Anyway, here&#8217;s my contribution to the global gallery. See also: <i>God does good work<\/i><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/sunset2012.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a dramatic sunset\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few random observations, the primary benefits of which are to give me an excuse not to start working on our tax return: A talking head on The Today Show just referred to the gluten-free nutrition movement as being &#8220;glamatized.&#8221; Forgive my potential misspelling, but I claim immunity as that&#8217;s not, you know, a real&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/02\/17\/120217-randomthursday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Thursday &#8211; The Friday Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-754","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\/754","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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11126,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/11126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}