{"id":190950,"date":"2009-10-12T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/12\/i-am-a-complete-moron\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:10:00","slug":"i-am-a-complete-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/12\/i-am-a-complete-moron\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a Complete Moron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img204.imageshack.us\/img204\/7408\/250pxdohzg5.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>I spent 2 hours today trying to get a video of my daughter off a DVD that my neighbor, Michelle took of Natalie singing when she was at <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/well-natalies-back.html\">North Bay camp with her middle school class last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I kept getting parity and read errors, I tried a dozen utilities, with no luck&#8230;.Then it hit me.<\/p>\n<p>How about <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-variant: small-caps;font-size:180%;\" >Cleaning the Fracking DVD?????<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After about 30 seconds with a cloth for cleaning eyeglasses, the videos were on my hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>As the saying goes, &#8220;\u306a\u3044\u611a\u304b\u3055\u306f\u306a\u3044\u85ac\u3067\u3059&#8221;.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Pronounced in Japanese, &#8220;baka ni tsukeru kusuri wanai&#8221;, which means, &#8220;There is no medicine for stupidity.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 2 hours today trying to get a video of my daughter off a DVD that my neighbor, Michelle took of Natalie singing when she was at North Bay camp with her middle school class last year. I kept getting parity and read errors, I tried a dozen utilities, with no luck&#8230;.Then it hit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1144,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-consumer-electronics","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}