{"id":145,"date":"2005-01-25T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T07:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=145"},"modified":"2005-01-25T07:32:02","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T07:32:02","slug":"pandora-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/01\/25\/pandora-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/2005.01.24.a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-959\" title=\"2005.01.24.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/2005.01.24.a-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/2005.01.24.b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-960\" title=\"2005.01.24.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/2005.01.24.b-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>This weekend began quietly Saturday morning as I zombie-walked into lab bright and early at 7:30am to get some experiments started. Fortunately, this turned out to be a wise choice, for when I left work around 5 in the afternoon, it had become a complete whiteout. By the time the weekend blizzard ended late Sunday afternoon, we had been blanketed by more than 2 feet of Jack Frost&#8217;s <a href=\"\/updates\/data\/images\/2005.01.24.a.jpg\">finest<\/a>. And of course, what better way to spend a snowed-in weekend than mindless computer games? In fact, I had just gotten my hands on a copy of Tom Clancy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splintercell.com\">Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow<\/a>, perhaps the sleekest, most handsomely-designed adventure game since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/adventure\/metalgearsolid\/index.html?\">MGS<\/a> came out in college. Of course, back then, I actually could afford the time to do this on a daily basis. Nevertheless, armed with high-tech gadgets, from thermal goggles to sticky spy-cams, and from the roof of a US embassy in Indonesia to the underside of a <a href=\"\/updates\/data\/images\/2005.01.24.b.jpg\">passenger train<\/a> in Paris, the game certainly made for an action-packed weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend began quietly Saturday morning as I zombie-walked into lab bright and early at 7:30am to get some experiments started. Fortunately, this turned out to be a wise choice, for when I left work around 5 in the afternoon, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/01\/25\/pandora-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}