{"id":105,"date":"2005-07-03T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2005-07-03T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T23:17:00","slug":"what-ive-been-doing-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"what I&apos;ve been doing this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-cut text=\"Back from Montreal.\"> Back from Montreal. It was hot! Over 30C (that&apos;s 90F) and humid with it. But we spent most of the time indoors in the air conditioning, or out and about at night when it was a little cooler. It was a productive trip, and I got a spare half hour to shop so I picked up a Jazz Festival CD (missed the actual festival by a week) and also a Thelonious Monk CD &#8211; I&apos;ve been meaning to get some Monk for a while now. <\/lj-cut><\/p>\n<p><lj-cut text=\"PC upgrade.\">I finally got around to upgrading my PC. The new one is quite shiny. Athlon 64 3700, 2G of RAM and a 300G HDD. 6800GT for the graphics, and a dual-layer DVD writer completes the package. Oh and there is also the anecdote of the speakers. So a week ago, Mrs. Elbeno is telling me to order the thing, already. I had a good idea of the spec and budget thanks to my previous research on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/guides\/showdoc.aspx?i=2426\">Anandtech<\/a>. So I casually ask Mrs. Elbeno: &#8220;Shall I get speakers too? There&apos;s a good set here.&#8221; She agrees and I order the lot. To be delivered to her office while I am in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it seems she hadn&apos;t realised the size of a speaker system (chiefly the subwoofer) &#8211; she was expecting a desktop pair, not a 6-speaker set weighing 42lb. So she was a little surprised when she had to ferry that home! Now that it&apos;s all set up I get regular admonishings about the bass. \ud83d\ude42<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from Montreal. It was hot! Over 30C (that&apos;s 90F) and humid with it. But we spent most of the time indoors in the air conditioning, or out and about at night when it was a little cooler. It was a productive trip, and I got a spare half hour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}