{"id":5231,"date":"2011-04-11T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2011-04-11T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:37:35","slug":"monday-miscellany-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/monday-miscellany-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected work struck today. Oh no! And it&#8217;s not even the kind that pays. Still, it&#8217;s the kind that has to be done during today&#8217;s five-second bursts of sunshine. So just some quick stuff for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manhattan-sized manmade floating island. Um &#8230; okay. Wonder how far <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/shareables\/2011\/04\/11\/manhattan-sized-portable-island-fund-it-on-kickstarter\/\" target=\"_blank\">that $50,000<\/a> will take the project? Wonder what that whiz-kid actually plans to <i>do<\/i> with it? Old-timers have seen this script before, but one of these days somebody&#8217;s going to succeed with the notion.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/10\/opinion\/10thompson.html?_r=3&#038;pagewanted=1&#038;src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The prosecution rests, but I can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/a> Eloquent statement by a victim of &#8220;justice.&#8221; (Why do people always say they don&#8217;t care about the money, though? <i>Of course<\/i> they care about the money when they sue! Maybe not <i>just<\/i> the money. But nobody believes you have $14 million snatched from you and <i>don&#8217;t care<\/i>.)\n<li>Woody Woodpecker and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/11\/arts\/design\/woody-woodpecker-and-shamus-culhanes-animation.html\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230; <i>avant garde<\/i> art???<\/a> (The last two items are NY Times.)\n<li>Isn&#8217;t that a great thing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/BehindTheScenes\/2011\/04\/07\/silveira-signs-a-movie-contract-that-features-his-much-talked-about-time-travel-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\">happened to the very creative John Silveira<\/a>?\n<li>Brian Doherty on <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2011\/04\/08\/atlas-shrugged-the-movie\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Atlas Shrugged: The Movie<\/i><\/a>. I just checked the initial theater locations on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefone.com\" target=\"_blank\">MovieFone.com<\/a>. Rats. Nothing close enough for me to go to unless a client picks up the travel tab. Don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s gonna happen &#8230;\n<li>Melt up &#8212; melt down. The ominous thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minyanville.com\/businessmarkets\/articles\/federal-reserve-treasury-department-treasuries-bond\/4\/8\/2011\/id\/33844\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> is that it&#8217;s from the mainstreamish Minyanville.\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today. Must go prime wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected work struck today. Oh no! And it&#8217;s not even the kind that pays. Still, it&#8217;s the kind that has to be done during today&#8217;s five-second bursts of sunshine. So just some quick stuff for you: Manhattan-sized manmade floating island. Um &#8230; okay. Wonder how far that $50,000 will take the project? Wonder what that whiz-kid actually plans to do with it? Old-timers have seen this script before, but one of these days somebody&#8217;s going to succeed with the notion. &#8220;The prosecution rests, but I can&#8217;t.&#8221; Eloquent statement by a victim of &#8220;justice.&#8221; (Why do people always say they don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/monday-miscellany-33\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,11,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}