{"id":179,"date":"2005-09-19T18:07:43","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T18:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=179"},"modified":"2005-09-19T18:07:43","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T18:07:43","slug":"new-addictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/09\/19\/new-addictions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Addictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/2005.09.19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-899\" title=\"2005.09.19\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/2005.09.19-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been taking the shuttle bus to do some experiments over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theschepens.org\/\">Schepens Eye Research Institute<\/a> recently. One of the things I missed since I had started walking to work rather than taking public transportation, is having an isolated period of time to do stuff. Of course, I could be studying. But instead, I&#8217;ve taken on a renewed addiction in playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miniclip.com\/tetris.htm\">Tetris<\/a> on my cell phone. I know it&#8217;s pathetic, but I guess that&#8217;s why they call it an addiction! Among other things I&#8217;ve recently grown addicted to are the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikedhumor.com\">SpikedHumor.com<\/a>, specializing in funny and outrageous video clips, as well as the recently-released demo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageofempires3.com\/\">Age of Empires 3<\/a>. The demo itself is still very buggy, but the graphics and game engine are impressive. Check out this <a href=\"updates\/data\/images\/2005.09.19.jpg\">screenshot<\/a> of my most excellent army!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been taking the shuttle bus to do some experiments over at the Schepens Eye Research Institute recently. One of the things I missed since I had started walking to work rather than taking public transportation, is having an isolated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/09\/19\/new-addictions\/\">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-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}