{"id":54,"date":"2009-09-24T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2009-09-24T01:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T09:54:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-9262009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-9262009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 9\/26\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be scarce again today, because this is the day I volunteer in the prison.&#160; I expect to be gone from late morning until well [past my normal bedtime.&#160; So I probably won\u2019t get out to visit blogs.&#160; Please bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, my mouse gave up the ghost, and it was almost brand new.&#160; I contacted Logitech, and they said to return it in it\u2019s original packaging for a replacement in four to six weeks.&#160; First of all, it was in one of those plastic things that make it impossible to get out without destroying the original packaging.&#160; Second, I\u2019ve never used the touch pad in a notebook before.&#160; I\u2019ve been using a mouse since the Amiga came out in 1985.&#160; That was a sweet machine for its day.&#160; Anyway, after 34 years of mouse, this touchpad seems completely counterintuitive to me, so I won\u2019t go four to six weeks without one.&#160; This touch pad is really slowing me down.&#160; Needless to say, I won\u2019t be recommending the Logitech Notebook Mouse. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I completed today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle in 8:26, using the touchpad instead of a mouse, so here\u2019s your chance to outdo me big time.&#160; To try it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-09-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Use this open thread to sound off, and have a great day!!<\/p>\n<p>TC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be scarce again today, because this is the day I volunteer in the prison.&#160; I expect to be gone from late morning until well [past my normal bedtime.&#160; So I probably won\u2019t get out to visit blogs.&#160; Please bear with me. Yesterday, my mouse gave up the ghost, and it was almost brand new.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-9262009\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}