{"id":534,"date":"2006-07-03T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2006-07-03T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T00:21:00","slug":"revenge-of-the-luddite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/07\/03\/revenge-of-the-luddite\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the Luddite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology &#8211; my vice, my paramour, my nemesis.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop has been &#8216;in the shop&#8217; for about two and a half weeks.  The &#8216;shop&#8217; is in &#8211; of all places &#8211; Utah.  Apparently, in all of North America, Gateway computers only have qualified technicians in Utah.  Go figure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/momm-eh.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/do-i-look-fat-in-this-laptop.html\">You may remember <\/a>back when we got the laptop &#8211; I thought it was an almost embarrassing and unnecessary extravagance.  Now, it&#8217;s a lifeline.  For more than half a month, I&#8217;ve had to actually creep down to the basement and use the desktop computer to surf, and to blog.  Oh, the indecency of it all.  It&#8217;s practically a stone tablet and chisel, for goodness sake.<\/p>\n<p>And then, while we were away this past week, Beloved has the audacity to take with him our digital camera (which I also thought was a bit of an embarrassing and unnecessary extravagance), leaving me with my little Canon Owl point and shoot 35mm camera.  Not even an SLR, mind you.  And I had to bring the <em>films<\/em> to the <em>photo lab<\/em> and actually <em>wait<\/em> to see what the pictures looked like.  It was nothing short of painful.  We used to live like this?  It&#8217;s positively prehistoric.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, I had to wait until tonight to post some of the pics from the 35mm camera (I even had to ask for a reminder tutorial on how to scan things into the computer!) and now Blogger has crapped out on me and won&#8217;t let me edit post any more photos.  But in the next little while, I&#8217;m going back to re-edit some of the original sketches on Quebec City, so do go back and admire the photos, now that it&#8217;s taken so much bloody work to post them for you.  Egads, at this rate I&#8217;ll posting via seminole signals by the end of the weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology &#8211; my vice, my paramour, my nemesis. The laptop has been &#8216;in the shop&#8217; for about two and a half weeks. The &#8216;shop&#8217; is in &#8211; of all places &#8211; Utah. Apparently, in all of North America, Gateway computers only have qualified technicians in Utah. Go figure. You may remember back when we got &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/07\/03\/revenge-of-the-luddite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Revenge of the Luddite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}