{"id":702,"date":"2007-11-15T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/15\/2007-11-15-observed-gordon-lightfoot-edition-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:46","slug":"2007-11-15-observed-gordon-lightfoot-edition-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/2007-11-15-observed-gordon-lightfoot-edition-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Observed: Gordon Lightfoot Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been walking around to each workstation at the Great Big Charity to undo some automatically-installed Windows Update desktop search bloatware (thanks Redmond!) over the last couple days. This is a good thing though, since I get a better idea of people&#8217;s computer problems, work problems, and even personal problems. I won&#8217;t bore you with that stuff since it&#8217;s typical of any workplace. What I will bore you with is the desktop wallpaper on one machine. A glory photo of, you guessed it, The Edmund Fitzgerald. Prior to November 1975, one would presume.<\/p>\n<p>Why that picture? &#8220;I&#8217;ve always loved those big freighters,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You know that&#8217;s the Edmund Fitzgerald, right?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah, what about it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8jxX2aZtVXQ&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Geez, people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I&#8217;ve been walking around to each workstation at the Great Big Charity to undo some automatically-installed Windows Update desktop search bloatware (thanks Redmond!) over the last couple days. This is a good thing though, since I get a better idea of people&#8217;s computer problems, work problems, and even personal problems. I won&#8217;t bore you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/2007-11-15-observed-gordon-lightfoot-edition-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Observed: Gordon Lightfoot Edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,9,19,20],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-festival-of-dirt","tag-genius","tag-music","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}