{"id":45,"date":"2002-09-10T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2002-09-10T17:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/root\/?p=45"},"modified":"2002-09-10T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2002-09-10T17:56:50","slug":"i-feel-as-if-ive-lost-a-limb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/2002\/09\/10\/i-feel-as-if-ive-lost-a-limb\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel as if I&#8217;ve lost a limb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI killed my computer dead. I&#8217;ve been having problems with it for awhile; the CPU fans died most horribly, shrieking and groaning for weeks, so the CPU has been running hot for some time. I finally decided to do something about it, and tried to replace the fans, but it seems I shorted out the board or my memory stick (I had to take it out to get at the CPU fan screws), or I jostled the CPU into oblivion, or something similar, but the thing won&#8217;t boot. It just lets off a series of shrill beeps and won&#8217;t turn off. I can&#8217;t do a thing about it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs a result, I won&#8217;t be able to post very often until I get it fixed. No computer at home means no writing. Nothing tragic to you, I suppose, but I&#8217;m in the midst of a terrible desperation. It&#8217;s <em>horrible<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are certain projects I&#8217;ve been meaning to undertake; I need to respond to my friend Ben&#8217;s comments, I&#8217;ve wanted to write several email letters for quite some time, and there are a couple of small pieces I need to finish. All will have to wait indefinitely.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI have to do some <em>work<\/em> while I&#8217;m at work now, but I did want to mention that just this morning I&#8217;ve begun reading Kierkegaard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pup.princeton.edu\/titles\/2565.html\"><i>Either\/Or, Part I<\/i><\/a>. I&#8217;m quite excited.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"np\">\nNP: Cocteau Twins, <i>Lorelei<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I killed my computer dead. I&#8217;ve been having problems with it for awhile; the CPU fans died most horribly, shrieking and groaning for weeks, so the CPU has been running hot for some time. I finally decided to do something about it, and tried to replace the fans, but it seems I shorted out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}