{"id":446,"date":"2008-03-03T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/car-show-roads-flowers\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T12:15:00","slug":"car-show-roads-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/car-show-roads-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"car show, roads, flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a car show with a couple of friends last evening.  It was the last day for the show and we didn&#8217;t get there until around 6 &#8211; and the show closed at 8:00.     And it was disappointing.   All the cars pretty much looked like cars.  The trucks looked like trucks, the SUVs looked like SUVs.  Only a couple of concept cars and though they looked kinda cool, they were still essentially cars.   Nothing really innovative.    I saw a touch screen display that mentioned some futuristic cars &#8211; so I played with that until I got to some sketches  for a &#8220;no holds barred imagination&#8221; design.  It looked pretty cool &#8211; and the wheels were just spokes!   Looked like some kind of hover car or variable traction smart wheels or something.  The final design?  An ordinary car with ordinary wheels. <\/p>\n<p>We were still there when they started shutting down the lights &#8211; I thought security was going to have to drag the car nuts I was with out of the cars, but we got out unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230;  The roads this morning were terrible.  Not icy, but covered in potholes.  There are a couple of spots that are really bad on my way to work.   I thought I was going to get lost in there a few times.  And forget listening to a CD in my car &#8211; there&#8217;s no skip protection in the world that could help with my commute.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, one of the student assistants that I work with mentioned that she was trying to find a particular flower that her family exchanges this time of the year.   She seemed a little disappointed and maybe a little homesick &#8211; so, I found a design on the &#8216;net and got some supplies &#8211; and folded about 50 small flowers.   A little hot-melt glue on a branch from a craft store &#8211; and a small vase with some rocks &#8211; and it was ready to go.  Should be a nice surprise when she gets in.  I&#8217;ll try to get photos tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s about it for now&#8230; back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-6504864187879353920?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a car show with a couple of friends last evening. It was the last day for the show and we didn&#8217;t get there until around 6 &#8211; and the show closed at 8:00. And it was disappointing. All the cars pretty much looked like cars. The trucks looked like trucks, the SUVs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}