{"id":215,"date":"2008-03-28T12:57:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T18:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2008-03-29T11:33:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T17:33:01","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Baseball Season &#8211; Here at last. Well, almost. The Red Sox have played two games in Japan, but now have to wait until the official opening day on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Friday classes &#8211; Last one tonight. It&#8217;s good to finish up a course with only 6 meetings, but spending Friday night and all day Saturday\u00c2\u00a0in class is no fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Open access spectrum &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/articles\/2008\/03\/28\/big_wireless_carriers_get_set_to_free_the_phone\/\" title=\"Boston Globe\">Finally the government does something right.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Of course it remains to be seen if it really happens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Construction noise &#8211; It&#8217;s going to be a noisy summer as they dig up the street in front of my office. I&#8217;ve been listening to idling dump trucks and\u00c2\u00a0backup beepers all day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Earth Hour &#8211; The idea is for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,1725947,00.html\" title=\"Time.com\">everyone to turn off their lights at 8PM<\/a> on Saturday for one hour. What happens when the entire population of a timezone turns the lights on right at 9PM? I bet the power grid folks just love this idea. Luckily the promotion of the idea is practically non-existent, so it shouldn&#8217;t be a big deal in any respect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Now Google has picked up the Earth Hour flag and is running with it. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how widespread the effort becomes in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Baseball Season &#8211; Here at last. Well, almost. The Red Sox have played two games in Japan, but now have to wait until the official opening day on Tuesday. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Friday classes &#8211; Last one tonight. It&#8217;s good to finish up a course with only 6 meetings, but spending Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-school","category-sports","category-techsecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}