{"id":10133,"date":"2015-09-04T20:06:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10133"},"modified":"2015-09-04T20:06:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:06:36","slug":"004366-tech-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/04\/004366-tech-support\/","title":{"rendered":"004\/366: Tech Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Labor Day weekend here in the US, so we’ve come down to my parents’ for an end-of-summer weekend. The kids are, of course, thrilled to be visiting Grandma and Grandpa’s house where they can bask in the warmth of… Transformers cartoons on Grandma and Grandpa’s Netflix subscription.<\/p>\n

(I’d say “Kids these days,” but if I’m totally honest, I would have to admit that getting to watch WPIX was a highlight of visits to my grandmother on Long Island back when I was their age…)<\/p>\n

Anyway, a lot of the pictures I end up taking look basically like this: quick snapshots of the kids doing whatever. In this case, having Grandma and Grandpa make cartoons play on the tablet. Part of this photo-a-day business is to push a little past that routine, but at the same time, there’s a lot to be said for sticking with what works…<\/p>\n

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Grandma and Grandpa setting SteelyKid and The Pip up to watch Netflix.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(This one took a bit of processing in GIMP, because the lamp on the right cast everything else in deep shadow. A version with the flash on was a little too flat, though, and anyway, the Curves tool is a wonderful thing.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you’re in the US, enjoy the holiday weekend. If not, um, happy September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Labor Day weekend here in the US, so we’ve come down to my parents’ for an end-of-summer weekend. The kids are, of course, thrilled to be visiting Grandma and Grandpa’s house where they can bask in the warmth of… Transformers cartoons on Grandma and Grandpa’s Netflix subscription. (I’d say “Kids these days,” but if… Continue reading 004\/366: Tech Support<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,2,50,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}