{"id":84,"date":"2011-02-04T00:36:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T00:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/more-technolust\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T00:36:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T00:36:17","slug":"more-technolust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/more-technolust\/","title":{"rendered":"More Technolust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immediately after reading details of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/12\/09\/google-cr-48-chrome-laptop-preview\/\" title=\"CR-48 preview\">Google&#8217;s prototype Chromeos netbook &#8211; the CR-48<\/a>, I became mildly obsessed. This morning the mild obsession was promoted to wild, frantic, fully-fledged, autistic obsession; my HoD woke up this morning to find one on his doorstep and I got a chance to play with it. There were a lot of, probably valid, negative comments from other colleagues, but I fell in love with it in a profound way and now&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>I WANT ONE!<\/h3>\n<p>Despite being a geek, I tend not get excited by new technology. The last two devices that I really developed an obsession for were a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motorola_FONE_F3\" alt=\"Motorola F3\">Motorola F3<\/a> e-ink phone, and my <a href=\"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/veghead\/vm\/927\/\" title=\"morse key\">beautiful Bencher morse paddle<\/a>; neither device could really be described as high-tech or cutting-edge, but I wanted them so badly I couldn&#8217;t help myself.<br \/>\nBut this isn&#8217;t so easy: you can&#8217;t buy them. Google have to decide to send you one. And the strength of desire makes me feel like Charlie Bucket with Asperger&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s&#8230;perfect! Unbranded, voluptuous texture, no windows key, wifi, 3G, webcam&#8230;sorry, I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ve just cum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immediately after reading details of Google&#8217;s prototype Chromeos netbook &#8211; the CR-48, I became mildly obsessed. This morning the mild obsession was promoted to wild, frantic, fully-fledged, autistic obsession; my HoD woke up this morning to find one on his doorstep and I got a chance to play with it. There were a lot of, [&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-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}