{"id":590,"date":"2006-09-13T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T09:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/13\/i-got-your-nerdy-watch-right-h\/"},"modified":"2006-09-13T09:09:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T09:09:53","slug":"i-got-your-nerdy-watch-right-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/13\/i-got-your-nerdy-watch-right-h\/","title":{"rendered":"I Got Your Nerdy Watch Right Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janet thinks she&#8217;s scoring nerd points by posting a picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2006\/09\/tick_tock_tick_tock.php\">her nerdy watch<\/a>, but I can match her timepiece:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-c620a6536723541e8fe5075cac9a9c78-watch2.jpg\" alt=\"i-c620a6536723541e8fe5075cac9a9c78-watch2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, there&#8217;s nothing particularly nerdy about the watch itself&#8211; the nerd part is the band, which in this case, is held together with a cable tie. The little loops that are supposed to keep the strap down broke off, so one day when I was in the lab, I grabbed a plastic cable tie, and made my own loop.<\/p>\n<p>That was in December. I replaced the band about a week ago. I only replaced it because Kate was getting her watch fixed, and pointedly asked whether I needed anything done with mine. (My first answer was &#8220;No, I&#8217;m fine.&#8221;) Not because I&#8217;m cheap, but because I couldn&#8217;t be bothered to fix what was essentially a cosmetic problem. <\/p>\n<p>And, really, what&#8217;s more nerdy than disdain for appearances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet thinks she&#8217;s scoring nerd points by posting a picture of her nerdy watch, but I can match her timepiece: OK, there&#8217;s nothing particularly nerdy about the watch itself&#8211; the nerd part is the band, which in this case, is held together with a cable tie. The little loops that are supposed to keep the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/13\/i-got-your-nerdy-watch-right-h\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Got Your Nerdy Watch Right Here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}