{"id":412,"date":"2007-05-26T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/qsd\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T16:37:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T16:37:37","slug":"qsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/qsd\/","title":{"rendered":"QSD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/veghead\/485222020\/\" target=\"_new\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/210\/485222020_b38a60a69f_m.jpg\" alt=\" \" class=\"illustration\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>A while back I mentioned a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/veghead\/vm\/569\/\" target=\"_new\">passing interest in Morse code<\/a> (or CW as the hams call it), but since then it has escalated to a significant interest, bordering on the obsessive. As obsessions go it&#8217;s not such a bad one I suppose, although the reaction of most people when I tell them is a combination confusion and pity.  But it&#8217;s got to the stage where Suzanne (my CW co-conspirator) and I are planning to get a ham licence each. Do we really need this much geekiness in our lives ? Too late really, we both now own brand new morse keys and can happily recognise the alphabet. Oh dear.<\/p>\n<p>Some good things from this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meeting up with an old friend\/colleague at a pub in the west-end that served Thatcher&#8217;s Heritage cider.<\/li>\n<li>On the way home getting a legendary, cow-sized salt-beef sarny from Gaby&#8217;s Deli together with a latke, a pickled cucumber, and a complimentary falafel and sweet&#8230;.as I say, it&#8217;s the little things.<\/li>\n<li>Someone from Yahoo contacted me to ask if they could use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/veghead\/169630025\/\" target=\"_new\">one of my pictures<\/a> for a feature article.<\/li>\n<li>Managing to fix my parents Freeview PVR by replacing the knackered 80G hard drive (Maxtor) with a 200G Seagate. This is the first time I&#8217;ve bought a drive that wasn&#8217;t OEM; it&#8217;s amazing, you get a shiny box, a manual, a five year guarantee and everything!<\/li>\n<li>Some nice evenings in the pub.<\/li>\n<li>Long weekend ahead&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I mentioned a passing interest in Morse code (or CW as the hams call it), but since then it has escalated to a significant interest, bordering on the obsessive. As obsessions go it&#8217;s not such a bad one I suppose, although the reaction of most people when I tell them is a [&hellip;]<\/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-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}