{"id":7752,"date":"2011-11-02T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2011-11-02T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T09:22:23","slug":"midweek-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/midweek-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still deadlining. Oy. But I&#8217;m beginning to believe that the light I see at the end of that tunnel <i>might<\/i> not be an onrushing train. This weekend I&#8217;m going to collapse in a happy heap. Meanwhile, the news &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2011-10-28\/penn-jillette-ten-commandments\/50978982\/1?csp=hf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Penn Jillette&#8217;s 10 commandments for atheists.&#8221;<\/a> I&#8217;m neither an atheist nor a fan of commandments. Still, these are pretty good. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.)\n<li>Can any of you techno-hackers tell me if <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5852903\/silence-noisy-neighbors-by-transmitting-signals-through-their-own-speakers\" target=\"_blank\">this might work<\/a> at a distance of 50 yards or so? I&#8217;ve had this little problem &#8230;\n<li>Six things nobody will tell you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/mf-globals-risk-mismanagement-2011-11-01?pagenumber=1\" target=\"_blank\">about MF Global<\/a>. I mean, <i>aside<\/i> from don&#8217;t try to bail yourself out with your clients&#8217; money after making billion dollar bets that anybody could have told you were a really dumb idea.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/30\/reader-story-how-debt-put-my-dreams-on-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How debt put my dreams on hold.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/10\/26\/youtube_take_down_requests_country_differences\/\" target=\"_blank\">governments want Google to remove.<\/a> (Tip o&#8217; hat to JS.)\n<li>Here&#8217;s your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halopets.com\/freekibble\/donation31.php\" target=\"_blank\">awwwwwwww story of the week<\/a> And as a bonus, it&#8217;s a hair-raising adventure, besides.\n<li>&#8220;Get well soon, Scott!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottolsen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ScottOlsen.org<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still deadlining. Oy. But I&#8217;m beginning to believe that the light I see at the end of that tunnel might not be an onrushing train. This weekend I&#8217;m going to collapse in a happy heap. Meanwhile, the news &#8230; &#8220;Penn Jillette&#8217;s 10 commandments for atheists.&#8221; I&#8217;m neither an atheist nor a fan of commandments. Still, these are pretty good. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.) Can any of you techno-hackers tell me if this might work at a distance of 50 yards or so? I&#8217;ve had this little problem &#8230; Six things nobody will tell you about MF Global. I mean,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/midweek-miscellany\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[8,11,18,19,20,21,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-monkeywrenching","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752","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=7752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}