{"id":264,"date":"2008-05-01T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-05-01T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T00:47:11","slug":"born-to-gaze-into-night-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/born-to-gaze-into-night-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"born to gaze into night skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to have been neglecting this here blag lately. Just a short post tonight, as I&#8217;ve not yet got over the hump with my work that&#8217;s not really job-work but is library-work (and thus, I suppose, is kind of job-work, in a vague, tenure-track way). But more soon, I promise!<\/p>\n<p>So Gus came home from school one day recently, took a piece of folded paper out of his pocket, unfolded it, and said, &#8220;this is my laptop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauraweb.com\/images\/gustop1.jpg\" height=\"249\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Note the apple!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauraweb.com\/images\/gustop2.jpg\" height=\"399\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We thought it was pretty cool. He said &#8220;it&#8217;s a pocket laptop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauraweb.com\/images\/gustop3.jpg\" height=\"512\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Of course version 2.0 hit a few days later. Note the huge antenna &#8212; this baby has a blazing fast wifi connection!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauraweb.com\/images\/gustop4.jpg\" height=\"464\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The antenna does make it a bit droopy, though you can flip it backwards to hold up the screen. He gave us a long explanation about what&#8217;s happening on the screen here, but I forget what it was. Note the labeled keys in this version, and the &#8220;emrginse&#8221; button and &#8220;spasbar&#8221; at the bottom. I wish my computer had an emergency button (I don&#8217;t think I need a spaz bar though).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauraweb.com\/images\/gustop5.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The best part is down in the bottom right corner. &#8220;It&#8217;s the mouse, mom.&#8221; Duh! I love that the tail = the cord. Brilliant. I think the kid has a future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to have been neglecting this here blag lately. Just a short post tonight, as I&#8217;ve not yet got over the hump with my work that&#8217;s not really job-work but is library-work (and thus, I suppose, is kind of job-work, in a vague, tenure-track way). But more soon, I promise! So Gus came home from [&hellip;]<\/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-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}