{"id":2532,"date":"2008-12-21T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2008-12-21T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T03:51:55","slug":"the-pack-rat-imperativecontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/2532","title":{"rendered":"The Pack Rat Imperative&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old friend from grade school, who lives in Pennsylvania these days, has offered to take any of the computer hardware and software I don&#8217;t want anymore off my hands.&nbsp; Techno geek children tend to befriend one another at an early age.&nbsp; I am grateful.&nbsp; I dislike the thought of tossing all this stuff away, even if it&#8217;s to a recycling bin.&nbsp; With all the hazardous materials in electronics these days, I doubt much of it really gets recycled anyway, so much as disposed of.&nbsp; He&#8217;s an ingenious tinkerer whose grade school accomplishments included building a pirate radio station and hacking the school sound system.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure he can put my boxes of old computer hardware to good, possibly even nefarious use.&nbsp; &quot;<em>You have violated Robot&#8217;s Rules of Order and will be asked to leave the future, immediately.<\/em>&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>I have another friend in Kansas who I suspect would have loved to take all this stuff off my hands too, but I don&#8217;t see myself taking a drive to Kansas until after winter has left the plains, and this stuff is too heavy and bulky to just box up and ship.&nbsp; He should remind me to look in the computer closet for anything I&#8217;m not using though, before I take my next road trip west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old friend from grade school, who lives in Pennsylvania these days, has offered to take any of the computer hardware and software I don&#8217;t want anymore off my hands.&nbsp; Techno geek children tend to befriend one another at an early age.&nbsp; I am grateful.&nbsp; I dislike the thought of tossing all this stuff away, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,55],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-computer-geeking","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}