{"id":615,"date":"2004-11-24T04:43:10","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/24\/epilepsy-inducing-seasonal-fun\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T01:19:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:19:30","slug":"epilepsy-inducing-seasonal-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/24\/epilepsy-inducing-seasonal-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Epilepsy-inducing Seasonal Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- picture_glue_start --> <a class=\"pic_link\" href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post615\/xmas_lights.jpg\" target=\"zoom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo_justified\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post615\/thumbnails\/xmas_lights.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Picture xmas_lights.jpg\" \/><\/a> <!-- picture_glue_stop -->What I learned today:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Xmas lights are fun.<br \/>\nOK: I knew that one already, but I mean, they are <i>really<\/i> fun&#8230; Actually, when they are done remodeling my loft in Manhattan, I&#8217;ll make sure I have them install a dozen of these sets I got for 1,000 yens at <a href=\"http:\/\/club.nokia.co.jp\/tokyoq\/weekly_updates\/tqoole\/don.html\">Don Qixote<\/a> yesterday (<i>don&#8217;, don&#8217;, don&#8217;, donkyyy\u3000\u266a\u3000don&#8217; kyyy \u266a ho-hotayyyh \u266a\u266a<\/i>&#8230;  ahem, sorry, can&#8217;t help it: months of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donki.com\/index.html\">conditioning<\/a> will do that to you&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><i>Blinking<\/i> xmas lights are <i>very<\/i> fun<\/li>\n<li>Blinking xmas lights are very fun: for a while<\/li>\n<li>Decrypting the half baked japanese directions somewhat printed on the back of the cheap carton box to find out how to turn off the blinking is way less fun<\/li>\n<li>However tempting, the tacks that hold the lights to the wall are not to be affixed to the wall with the assistance of a hammer or any other bulky object. And we all know it is very tempting to handle a bulky wooden japanese mallet a few inches away from delicate, highly breakable, tiny capsules of glass.<\/li>\n<li>If you fail to follow previous advice and end up turning one of the aforementioned tiny capsules into a pinch of cheerfully colored powder, resist the urge to do the same on the rest of the garland, for the sole purpose of figuring how long it&#8217;d take you to get them all.<\/li>\n<li>If you accidentally get high (these things happen), never, ever, under any circumstances, start looking in the directions of the resulting lighting structure: people have died of starvation that way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I learned today: Xmas lights are fun. OK: I knew that one already, but I mean, they are really fun&#8230; Actually, when they are done remodeling my loft in Manhattan, I&#8217;ll make sure I have them install a dozen of these sets I got for 1,000 yens at Don Qixote yesterday (don&#8217;, don&#8217;, don&#8217;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}