{"id":29,"date":"2005-12-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2005-12-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T15:00:00","slug":"the-blight-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/the-blight-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blight of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powerplay-dj.com\/WishList.gif\" \/><br \/>I&#8217;ve finally got some time to think about the holidays,<br \/>so, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commercialism\">true spirit<\/a> of Christmas, I submit to you my wish list:<\/p>\n<p><b>Macromedia Studio 8<\/b>. This little package will keep me busy.  After all, idle hands are the devil&#8217;s Texas hold &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p><b>Petzl Grigri<\/b>. It looks like they stopped selling the Grigri at REI&#8230;but I still like it.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Nixon Rotologue<\/b>. So I&#8217;ll never be late to work again.  And the watch is partly biodegradable.<\/p>\n<p><b>15&#8243; PowerBook<\/b>. Think of it as an <i>investment<\/i> instead of a toy. But wait until they&#8217;re powered by Intel.  And run on flash memory. And have LED instead of LCD.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m going for the &#8220;something blue&#8221; motif.  Next year, we&#8217;ll do &#8220;something borrowed.&#8221;  I know what you&#8217;re thinking&#8230;none of this is possible, and that&#8217;s ok.  I believe in Christmas miracles.  And I still love hot cocoa. And orange juice. But not together. Oh, and the ink on my printer is running low, so an HP94 and 97 should do the trick. Or, anouther route would be a new <b>HP Designjet 5500<\/b> large format printer. Either way, i&#8217;m easy to please.  Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally got some time to think about the holidays,so, in the true spirit of Christmas, I submit to you my wish list: Macromedia Studio 8. This little package will keep me busy. After all, idle hands are the devil&#8217;s Texas hold &#8217;em. Petzl Grigri. It looks like they stopped selling the Grigri at REI&#8230;but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ve finally got some time to think about the holidays,so, in the true spirit of Christmas, I submit to you my wish list:Macromedia Studio 8. 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