{"id":142,"date":"2008-05-24T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-05-24T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T16:51:00","slug":"breaking-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a significant gap between postings, I know.  Chalk it up to a bit of work getting done (first installment of <i>Reality, ReMastered<\/i> goes live next week or the week after, I think), a lot of other work <i>not<\/i> getting done, and, once again, the ill-advised decision to buy a laptop from Dell which has brought me nothing but grief.  (For those of you recently arrived at this blog:  never, ever, <i>ever<\/i> buy a Dell.  My other computer is a dual-boot dual-core Linux machine which I cannot wait to get back to.)<\/p>\n<p>The sandhills are in the rear-view mirror now.  In their honor, a few pictures once again courtesy of Dan Brooks.  This diptych, perhaps, thumbnails the whole experience most effectively:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/beforeAfter-787967.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/beforeAfter-787901.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Keep in mind that it took <i>two days<\/i> for the first picture to turn into the second.  (And back again, too, a couple of weeks later.)<\/p>\n<p>This is what you&#8217;d see from the porch if you were crazy enough to get up at five in the morning:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/lacewing-730801.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/lacewing-730788.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>And this is either me, or Seth Brundle after an unfortunate accident with a telepod:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/TheFly-730832.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/TheFly-730827.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Don&#8217;t worry:  this is not the shape of things to come.  I&#8217;ll be dumping the travelogue pics and returning to the usual rants and research once I&#8217;ve got back home and cleared the decks.  I just figured I should post <i>something<\/i> in the meantime, and stills from <i>Frisky Dingo<\/i> would have probably infringed copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a significant gap between postings, I know. Chalk it up to a bit of work getting done (first installment of Reality, ReMastered goes live next week or the week after, I think), a lot of other work not getting done, and, once again, the ill-advised decision to buy a laptop from Dell which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}