{"id":81,"date":"2002-12-07T01:46:52","date_gmt":"2002-12-07T01:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2002-12-07T01:46:52","modified_gmt":"2002-12-07T01:46:52","slug":"the-non-consequential-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"The non-consequential update."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sleepy, tired, cold and waiting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve broke off my addiction to Spider Solitaire, I think. While waiting for the connection, I&#8217;m resorting to ZSNES, an emulator that lets you play Super Nintendo (or Super Famicom as it is known around here) games on your PC. I&#8217;ve gone through all 95 levels of Super Mario World. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s everybody? I mean, the blogging people. Nobody bothers to reply to my comments anymore. It seems like the moment I slag off and bask in offlineness that everybody stops visiting me. I&#8217;m still alive (though ICQ, and then ICQ Lite, seems to hang a lot lately.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m scared. Feeling threatened. Something&#8217;s coming over the horizon, the orange skies, about to engulf my place. Everybody else will like it. Heck I like it too, but it&#8217;s disturbing because it&#8217;s taking over what I had. Even then, what I had was because they had no other choice. Now something better comes along. Can I roof them and cloud them from the great orange, or do I provide something better?<\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;m going to do my research on it. What does it have that I don&#8217;t? Lots. What can I do? Lots as well. Not so soon, though. My exams are next week and I&#8217;m even less prepared than before.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ve watched James Bond&#8217;s latest adventure, <b>Die Another Day<\/b>. Wow. Seems the writers have given him a chance to whoop <b>xXx<\/b>&#8216;s derriere, with snowcapades, fast cars and women. There were a lot of elements you wouldn&#8217;t have expected to see if not for <b>xXx<\/b>. Heh. Vengeance! Sure it doesn&#8217;t beat the Americans at being &#8216;X&#8217;-treme but Bond&#8217;s gotta be Bond still.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also gotten myself an A4Tech wireless (radio frequency) optical mouse. I&#8217;ve been splurging on computer hardware lately. Sadly, it lags in the sense that sometimes it doesn&#8217;t accelerate as it should. My only consolation is that it comes with a USB charger, and the mouse can be charged with a Nokia charger as well! That would also mean that my Nokia can be charged using the USB charger! Ah the convenience. \ud83d\ude42 Now I don&#8217;t need my wall-socketed AC\/DC adaptor. Now I can predict calls while charging, with the aid of two monitors to fuzz out when calls come in!<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me. I gotta install Windows 98 on my old PC. That would be a problem considering it doesn&#8217;t have a floppy nor CD-ROM drive. I&#8217;ve been procrastinating shifting both drives from my PC to that one just to install. Heck I&#8217;ve been procrastinating burning CDs. Lazybum I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sleepy, tired, cold and waiting. I&#8217;ve broke off my addiction to Spider Solitaire, I think. While waiting for the connection, I&#8217;m resorting to ZSNES, an emulator that lets you play Super Nintendo (or Super Famicom as it is known around here) games on your PC. I&#8217;ve gone through all 95 levels of Super Mario [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}