{"id":277,"date":"2005-02-13T08:04:41","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T13:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=277"},"modified":"2005-02-12T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2005-02-12T20:32:12","slug":"when-gadgets-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"When gadgets die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Murphy&#8217;s First Law of Handheld Electronics:<\/strong>  The price of an item is directly proportionate to its vulnerability to destruction during a wayward trip to the pavement. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/treo_smashed.jpg\" alt=\"Treo 650 smashed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corollary:<\/strong> A gadget&#8217;s vulnerability to floor drops is directly proportionate to the device&#8217;s propensity to commit suicide with such a drop, all on its own.<\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not mine.  It belongs to <a href=\"http:\/\/discussion.treocentral.com\/showthread.php?t=72913\">some other poor soul<\/a>.  If it <em>were<\/em> mine, I wouldn&#8217;t be so&#8230; calm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murphy&#8217;s First Law of Handheld Electronics: The price of an item is directly proportionate to its vulnerability to destruction during a wayward trip to the pavement. Corollary: A gadget&#8217;s vulnerability to floor drops is directly proportionate to the device&#8217;s propensity to commit suicide with such a drop, all on its own. No, that&#8217;s not mine. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}