{"id":55,"date":"2003-12-30T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T04:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2003-12-30T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2003-12-30T04:39:07","slug":"practising-detachment-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/30\/practising-detachment-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"practising detachment (badly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if I don&#8217;t have too much stuff already, these are things I<br \/>\nknow I don&#8217;t need, but want:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apple.com\/\">Mini iPod<\/a>&nbsp;&mdash; I can&#8217;t<br \/>\nafford one of the big ones. If this can&#8217;t be used with Linux when<br \/>\nit&#8217;s announced in early January 2004, the game&#8217;s a bogey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lomography.com\/\">Lomo LC-A<br \/>\ncamera<\/a>&nbsp;&mdash; yes, I know it&#8217;s an overpriced, unreliable<br \/>\nripoff of the <a href=\"http:\/\/village.infoweb.ne.jp\/~matsuffc\/Yojouhan\/cosina_cx-1\/cosina_cx-1.htm\"><br \/>\nCosina CX-1<\/a>, and that digital is much cheaper to run, and that<br \/>\nmy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/heidoscop\/electro35.htm\">Yashica<br \/>\nElectro-35 GTN<\/a> gives better performance for less money,<br \/>\nbut&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantsofgreencoffee.com\/\">Green coffee<br \/>\nroaster<\/a>&nbsp;&mdash; freshly-roasted coffee tastes better than<br \/>\nyou could imagine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacom.com\/graphire\/\">Wacom Graphire<\/a><br \/>\ngraphics pad&nbsp;&mdash; because my existing cheapo pad doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nactually do much.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flea-mkt-music.com\/store\/\">Fluke<br \/>\nukulele<\/a>&nbsp;&mdash; I missed out on getting a uke when I was a<br \/>\nnipper, and I&#8217;ve wanted one ever since.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubadour.uk.com\/citgithtml.html\">Blondel<br \/>\nCittern Guitar<\/a>&nbsp;&mdash; because if I&#8217;m going to learn to<br \/>\nplay the guitar, I might as well get a portable one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think this all goes to show what you already know:<br \/>\n<strong>blogging makes you shallow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if I don&#8217;t have too much stuff already, these are things I know I don&#8217;t need, but want: Mini iPod&nbsp;&mdash; I can&#8217;t afford one of the big ones. If this can&#8217;t be used with Linux when it&#8217;s announced in early January 2004, the game&#8217;s a bogey. Lomo LC-A camera&nbsp;&mdash; yes, I know it&#8217;s an [&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":[29,1151,1613,2903,102,629,426],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-camera","tag-coffee","tag-graphics","tag-guitar","tag-ipod","tag-stuff","tag-ukulele"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}