{"id":11156,"date":"2011-01-07T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T18:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11156"},"modified":"2011-01-07T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T18:44:41","slug":"things-i-learned-over-christmas-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11156","title":{"rendered":"Things I Learned Over Christmas Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The first part of the Wizard Of Oz (the black and white part) is much longer than I remember. Also: the scarecrow is the best of the three.\n<li>Winter really does get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VGQgL653EW0\">cold in ways I always forget<\/a>. That bone-deep ache you get when your toes are cold for a long time is always shocking, when it happens.\n<li>RC airplanes are much harder to fly than you might imagine. It takes a lot to get used to the fact that the plane's left isn't always your left and that the plane doesn't just stay in the air magically; you have to <i>work<\/i> to keep it aloft if there's any wind, or if you try turning, or if you climb too fast and stall, etc..\n<p>Cruising along... Oh shit, a tree, <i>turn left<\/i>! (turns to your right, plane's left, loses speed) Oh shit! No, <i>the other left<\/i>! (turns to plane's right, loses more speed, noses down) Oh shit! <i>Climb<\/i>! (nose goes up, but the rudder's still to the plane's right, so you start to pitch over) Fuck! Rudder left, just a little! (plane levels, but it's going too slow, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stall_%28flight%29\"<\/a>air stall<\/a> coming up in 3...2...1) Oh shit! Elevator is still up, which means you can't get enough speed to pull out of the dive you're in. Elevator down, falling fast now. Pull up! (up it goes! misses the ground by inches, little engine screaming) No, not that much! Stall. Spin. Crash. Arrgh! (elapsed time, 4 seconds)<\/p>\n<p>Also: a plane weighing <i><a href=\"http:\/\/parkzone.com\/Products\/Default.aspx?ProdId=PKZ3400\">less than 3\/4 of an ounce<\/a><\/i>, running on an electric motor smaller than a honey bee, can easily snap a steel propeller shaft, if you land nose-first.<\/p>\n<li>\"Stop Making Sense\" really is the best concert film ever made. Also, Tina Weymouth is a beast of a bass player - just fantastic. It's hard to tell this from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6g8lFmsCXhg\">Rome show<\/a> because there are so many people on stage (including a second bassist), and the footage and sound aren't as clear. But in \"Stop Making Sense\", her greatness is obvious.\n<li>Vaporizers. What a swell idea.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newhollandbrew.com\/corp\/beer\/high_gravity\">Dragon's Milk<\/a> is good in bottles, but the draught version is 6.48 times better.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn anything interesting lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first part of the Wizard Of Oz (the black and white part) is much longer than I remember. Also: the scarecrow is the best of the three. Winter really does get cold in ways I always forget. That bone-deep ache you get when your toes are cold for a long time is always shocking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}