{"id":349,"date":"2003-06-24T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=349"},"modified":"2003-06-24T14:48:03","modified_gmt":"2003-06-24T14:48:03","slug":"more-tidbits-o-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"more tidbits o&#8217; fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thoughts while contemplating if watching Wimbledon constitutes true boredom:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You know, for a 25-year-old male, I don&#8217;t have nearly enough tools.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes I have to wonder about my TV&#8217;s movie rating system.  If &#8220;City of Angels&#8221; gets three stars, Shawshank certainly deserves four.<\/li>\n<li>I guess that if there&#8217;s ever a time for the car to have its battery go out, it&#8217;s during summer break when I don&#8217;t have anything else to do.<\/li>\n<li>Corollary: In terms of pounds per square inch, nothing beats a car battery for heaviness.<\/li>\n<li>Saw <i>Monsters, Inc.<\/i> for the first time today, and thus far, I&#8217;ve got to say it&#8217;s my least favorite of the Pixar offerings.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s not saying it&#8217;s not better than 90% of the other movies out there.<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of which: does Steve Buscemi ever get tired of playing the creepy bad guy?<\/li>\n<li>I think it&#8217;s the final step in completely missing one&#8217;s girlfriend when you make a web page calculating the <a href=\"countdown.html\">exact amount of time left<\/a> until she&#8217;s back.<\/li>\n<li>If you haven&#8217;t gone to buick.com and seen the &#8220;Tiger Trap&#8221; video, and you like golf in any way, go.  Watch.  I&#8217;ll wait.<\/li>\n<li>There aren&#8217;t many things in life that cause more frustration than working on your research project for hours and getting nowhere with it.<\/li>\n<li>And finally: while I may never be a match for Mr. Goodwrench, I had a little Tim Taylor moment when I got my car started after putting in the new battery.  Yes, I know it&#8217;s not that difficult, but remember, we&#8217;re talking about someone who scored in the 29th percentile of men taking the auto\/shop portion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaysmilitary.com\/explore_asvab.shtml\">ASVAB<\/a> in high school.  Anything more involved than putting gas in the car is a victory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts while contemplating if watching Wimbledon constitutes true boredom: You know, for a 25-year-old male, I don&#8217;t have nearly enough tools. Sometimes I have to wonder about my TV&#8217;s movie rating system. If &#8220;City of Angels&#8221; gets three stars, Shawshank certainly deserves four. I guess that if there&#8217;s ever a time for the car to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-instant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}