{"id":767,"date":"2007-12-29T20:56:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T03:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2007-12-29T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T03:56:16","slug":"holiday-notes-and-a-spit-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Holiday notes and a spit-take."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from a one-week trip to Calgary (Dallas of the North), Alberta (Texas of the North) to visit family. For Christmas I got&#8230; norovirus! Or something. Not food poisoning. And Influenza doesn&#8217;t actually cause vomiting and other&#8230; expulsions. Plus, it only lasted a day and bit, so I&#8217;m betting norovirus. Lemme tell ya, the abs work-out is spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise it was a laid back, quiet affair (with a time-delayed Christmas dinner to accommodate my illness &#8211; bah. Humbug!) Got Lost season three, got Little Britain Abroad, got Guitar Hero 3, got a whack load of books, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standupstories.com\/\">I Killed<\/a> (a nice companion to The Aristocrats or Seinfeld&#8217;s Comedian.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last of my store credit at Best Buy; hovering over the Checkout button for a camcorder-to-computer kit thing and the Blade Runner 4-disc set. Have never seen Blade Runner so am sorta thinking I need to rectify that before I get shot by some indignant nerd who decides to find my address and hunt me down for my ignorance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy shit! What!? WHAAAAT!?<\/p>\n<p>Matt, if you&#8217;re reading this, it means you&#8217;re not watching Blade Runner. And I have your address. You gave it to me.<\/p>\n<p>I will use it. Don&#8217;t make me use it.<\/p>\n<p>PS You don&#8217;t need the five disc set, but pay it forward and get yourself the four disc set. Don&#8217;t give in and get the two disc set. You should have a copy of the original version narrated by Harrison Ford. Most will say they hate it. They are idiots. Without the narration it&#8217;s brilliant. With it, it&#8217;s brilliant and noir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from a one-week trip to Calgary (Dallas of the North), Alberta (Texas of the North) to visit family. For Christmas I got&#8230; norovirus! Or something. Not food poisoning. And Influenza doesn&#8217;t actually cause vomiting and other&#8230; expulsions. Plus, it only lasted a day and bit, so I&#8217;m betting norovirus. Lemme tell ya, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}