{"id":201,"date":"2007-01-13T17:27:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T22:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/01\/13\/saturday-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2007-01-13T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T22:27:18","slug":"saturday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/01\/13\/saturday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been some light buzz<\/a> about National Review contributor Rod Dreher’s recently broadcast NPR audio essay<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 In short, the scales have fallen from his eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t say that I’m particularly moved by it, but it has generated some interesting analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Bet you didn’t know that, in addition to the prying eyes of the FBI, the NSA, and the TSA, you’ve now got to contend with . . . the United States military<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~<\/p>\n

Oh, I really want to go here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The New York Times, despite its other journalistic failings, has a reliably excellent travel section (I particularly like their 36 Hours in ____ feature).\u00c2\u00a0 How could they make it better?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I might find a way to make myself available for an assignment or four . . .<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

I love the Gmap Pedometer<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 The link is to my ride this afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 It was, because of the trip (and feeling really awful after it), the first ride of the year.\u00c2\u00a0 Final road bike mileage for last year was 1,961 miles, which was a fair bit less than what I’d hoped.\u00c2\u00a0 I started to kick myself for not heading out for a long ride before the trip so I could at least claim at 2k, but then I decided I could count my mountain biking mileage towards the total (I don’t know what it is, but it’s certainly more than 39 miles . . .).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Goal for this year?\u00c2\u00a0 At least 6,500km.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d originally written – “At least 4,000 miles.”, but then, inspired by this thread<\/a> at Slashdot, I’ve decided to at least try to get a better feel for a kilometer.\u00c2\u00a0 So now the Flight Deck<\/a> is set to kilometers, instead of miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been some light buzz about National Review contributor Rod Dreher’s recently broadcast NPR audio essay.\u00c2\u00a0 In short, the scales have fallen from his eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t say that I’m particularly moved by it, but it has generated some interesting analysis. ~ Bet you didn’t know that, in addition to the prying eyes of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,4,2,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc","category-law","category-personal","category-politics","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}