{"id":718,"date":"2007-01-22T09:24:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=718"},"modified":"2007-01-22T09:24:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T15:24:53","slug":"luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/01\/22\/luggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Luggage"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were at one of the local coffee houses this weekend, and I got a big kick out of looking at all the different laptops people lug out in public.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots and lots of Dells, which you’d expect.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple Apple units here and there.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I might’ve even seen a Sony.\u00c2\u00a0 But my very favorite was a Compaq (anyone remember Compaq?) that was easily the size of a briefcase.<\/p>\n

As I sat there watching the laptop’s owner peck away at her keypad, I wondered about her.\u00c2\u00a0 She looked like she was probably a student — a grad student.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn’t imagine what it was about this machine that recommended it enough to have someone carry it off the showroom floor or hit the “Buy Now” button.\u00c2\u00a0 All I can figure is that\u00c2\u00a0 it’s a desktop replacement. That is, that it has a big hard drive, an optical drive (or two), big replaceable batteries, the works.\u00c2\u00a0 The owner looked small, but not frail, like a weather-worn farm wife prematurely aged by life’s toils.<\/p>\n

I guess I can afford to be a bit of a laptop snob, since I own a Core 2 Duo MacBook<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve half a mind to bring it along next time we go to coffee; perhaps it would offer some inspiration to the Compaq girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were at one of the local coffee houses this weekend, and I got a big kick out of looking at all the different laptops people lug out in public.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots and lots of Dells, which you’d expect.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple Apple units here and there.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I might’ve even seen a Sony.\u00c2\u00a0 But my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-mac","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9oLlO-luggage","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}