{"id":692,"date":"2009-02-01T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/692"},"modified":"2009-02-01T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:47:20","slug":"most-expensive-satellite-mount-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/692","title":{"rendered":"Most expensive satellite mount, ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a few old photographs this morning and found this gem from quite a few years ago. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"316\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/image.png\" width=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was taken back during the first Internet DotCom boom \u2013 money flowing freely \u2013 excess, etc. Our neighbors were getting satellite installed one day.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that they later paid him to actually tilt the thing up at the sky though \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a few old photographs this morning and found this gem from quite a few years ago. This was taken back during the first Internet DotCom boom \u2013 money flowing freely \u2013 excess, etc. Our neighbors were getting satellite installed one day. I hope that they later paid him to actually tilt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-ba","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1773,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1773","url_meta":{"origin":692,"position":0},"title":"AV Club \/ Our home setup 2012","date":"December 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve done a lot of reworking of our computers and network recently and thought I\u2019d post some details about the various physical and digital parts that make our humble WiredPrairie home work. Using Google Docs, I created a labeled diagram with most of the moving parts of our house (WOW,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Recommendations&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Home Setup","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Home-Setup_thumb1.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1933,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1933","url_meta":{"origin":692,"position":1},"title":"Fitbit Flex, dead and won&rsquo;t charge?","date":"August 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My wife and I both pre-ordered a Fitbit Flex. While it\u2019s not a life-changing device, it\u2019s been generally fun to wear. I\u2019m always interested in the sleep tracking when I travel \u2026 \u201cAwake 16x, slept 5 hours.\u201d Last night though, my wife\u2019s Flex had stopped working. The lights wouldn\u2019t show\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":489,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/489","url_meta":{"origin":692,"position":2},"title":"Information Density and Edward Tufte","date":"August 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"From a dry (college professor style) video from Edward Tufte regarding a common data density design issue on the iPhone. (screen shot taken from his video) He mentions the cartoony interfaces and how many applications on the iPhone do not properly take advantage of the 163 DPI screen. 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Nest had asked me to swap the thermostats between two floors experimentally to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1482,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1482","url_meta":{"origin":692,"position":4},"title":"Nest Thermostat Review, Update #8","date":"January 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Summary\/Index A few new things have occurred since I last posted. January 11, 2012: Nest Labs updated the firmware of the thermostat to version 1.0.6. There isn\u2019t any publically available information about what was updated however other than \u201cbug fixes.\u201d Thanks to GregN for pointing it out. Here\u2019s a link\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"nestrounding","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nestrounding_thumb.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1576,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1576","url_meta":{"origin":692,"position":5},"title":"Nest Thermostat Review, Update #10: Wifi Settings Missing","date":"March 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"One more brief update about our Nest thermostats. After a few weeks of limited use of our HVAC system due to a very unusually warm late winter and early spring, I\u2019d set the whole house to AWAY mode last evening. However, a bit later, I heard the furnace running. 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