{"id":3392,"date":"2009-10-21T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T03:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2009-10-21T23:13:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T03:13:33","slug":"midweek-diversion-not-va-govs-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/10\/21\/midweek-diversion-not-va-govs-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Diversion: Not VA Govs Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s topic is Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger &#8211; descriptors that don&#8217;t bring either of the guys running for governor in VA to mind.\u00c2\u00a0 So, a bit of distracting fun.<\/p>\n<p>Daft Punk has the original &#8211; Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I first tuned into it during my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=Hong%20Kong&amp;w=12957181%40N00\">2004 trip to Hong Kong<\/a>, and it fit perfectly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jzV2s58P1rU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>The original video is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gAjR4_CbPpQ\">here<\/a>, but I can&#8217;t embed it because the record company hates you.\u00c2\u00a0 So we move on to some fan vids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This one attempts, you see, to match the lyrics to the moves.\u00c2\u00a0 Very clever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bl6RJyZdBSU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>But it was inspired by an original &#8211; which I just don&#8217;t think can be topped:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K2cYWfq&#8211;Nw[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing, the admirable skills in this world that are utterly useless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s topic is Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger &#8211; descriptors that don&#8217;t bring either of the guys running for governor in VA to mind.\u00c2\u00a0 So, a bit of distracting fun. Daft Punk has the original &#8211; Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I first tuned into it during my 2004 trip to Hong Kong, and it [&hellip;]<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","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=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}