{"id":43,"date":"2003-12-20T18:25:20","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T22:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2003-12-20T18:25:20","modified_gmt":"2003-12-20T22:25:20","slug":"masters-of-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/20\/masters-of-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"masters of bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"philips ae6370 pocket radio\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/archives\/ae6370.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"198\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found my little Philips pocket radio again today. I bought it on the 11th of September 2001, when radio was the only news medium I could get to that wasn&#8217;t overloaded.<\/p>\n<p>On FM stations, it sounds incredibly clear and sharp. But switch it to AM and detune it a little, and the world becomes a whole new electronic soundscape. Walk by a fluorescent light, and feel the massive fat buzz. A pocket calculator chitters away like an old adding machine. Luminescent panel displays chirp like crickets, wall-warts hum in harmony. My CD player is a waterfall, my mobile phone a galloping horse.<\/p>\n<p>But my computer is a totally different world. [Not so] bright antennae (on the wireless router) bristle with the energy. The printer is an angry beast, howling away even when it&#8217;s idle. But the CPU box just drowns everything else out in flat white noise. Nothing else competes.<\/p>\n<p>And all this I found in a quiet little house in Scarborough. I wonder what the rest of the world sounds like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found my little Philips pocket radio again today. I bought it on the 11th of September 2001, when radio was the only news medium I could get to that wasn&#8217;t overloaded. On FM stations, it sounds incredibly clear and sharp. But switch it to AM and detune it a little, and the world becomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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":[1473,1215],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-noise","tag-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}