{"id":1475,"date":"2007-01-06T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2007-01-06T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T12:13:00","slug":"brewing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"Brewing again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obtained a second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/airportexpress\/airtunes.html\">airport express<\/a> and plugged the existing speakers in the living room into it.  This means that I can play music from my laptop to any subset of (its own speakers, the living room, the kitchen).  Rock.  Go me.<\/p>\n<p>Another bottle of the Ivory Tower &#8220;volunteered&#8221; by blowing its cork clear up to the ceiling.  This very nearly scared the pants off of <a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">redmed<\/a>.  After calming everyone down (the cats were freaked out), I decided to open all the bottles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vacuvin.nl\/wining_winesaverrvs.html\">pull some CO2 out of solution to equalize the pressure<\/a>, and re-cork them.  So, that was fun.  We&#8217;ll see if it holds.  <\/p>\n<p>Dinner tonight with work folks from the hospital.  Warming up my polite conversation now.<\/p>\n<p>Having people down tomorrow to break in the new crepe pan. <\/p>\n<p>Finished both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_God_Delusion\">The God Delusion<\/a> by Richard Dawkins and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samharris.org\/site\/book_letter_to_christian_nation\/\">Letter to a Christian Nation<\/a> by Sam Harris.  I highly recommend each of them to any and all.  They share a theme, that according unconditional respect to religious thought leads to disastrous social repercussions.  Of the two, the Harris book is the place to start.  It&#8217;s tiny and reads in less than a couple of hours.  Dawkins is more thorough, on many of the same messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obtained a second airport express and plugged the existing speakers in the living room into it. This means that I can play music from my laptop to any subset of (its own speakers, the living room, the kitchen). Rock. Go me.<\/p>\n<p>Another bottle of the Ivory Tower &#8220;volunteered&#8221; by blowing its cork clear up to <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1475\">Brewing again&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}