{"id":860,"date":"2010-01-28T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=860"},"modified":"2010-01-28T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:11:00","slug":"more-fun-with-shiny-new-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"More fun with shiny new stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;I refuse to have cable. I refuse to use Netflix. I rarely spend money on DVDs. I&#8217;m <em>always<\/em> scrounging for fresh new cycling videos, and that&#8217;s how I catch up with stuff because I can&#8217;t stand to just sit and watch something, it seems like such a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to see <em>True Blood<\/em>. BUT&#8230;I have a cool new computer with a 22&#8243; high-def monitor and a sound card that could blast the windows out with just slightly better speakers. And I have iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>So last night, I tried it out for the first time. I downloaded the first episode of <em>True Blood<\/em> from iTunes, tilted the new monitor up a bit and did my cycling to it.<\/p>\n<p>It worked <em>perfectly.<\/em> Great picture, no problems hearing the audio! I think I&#8217;ve got cycling videos for quite a few weeks now! Because iTunes has <em>Vampire Diaries,<\/em> too. \ud83d\ude42 (And <em>Moonlight.<\/em> And <em>Blood Ties<\/em>. I&#8217;ve only seen one episode of each of those.)<\/p>\n<p>My opinion of <em>True Blood<\/em>&#8230;too soon to tell. Cycling is 30 minutes, so I&#8217;m just a little more than halfway through the first episode. I&#8217;ll watch several episodes to see how it develops before I formulate an opinion. But I&#8217;ll watch it all, because I can hardly be the vampire expert without seeing it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;I refuse to have cable. I refuse to use Netflix. I rarely spend money on DVDs. I&#8217;m always scrounging for fresh new cycling videos, and that&#8217;s how I catch up with stuff because I can&#8217;t stand to just sit and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}