{"id":149,"date":"2007-07-26T18:39:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T02:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-07-26T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T02:39:50","slug":"you-talkin-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/149","title":{"rendered":"You talkin&#8217; to me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course everyone has seen Bluetooth headsets that you can get for most cell phones these days. <img src='http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/bt200_128jpg.jpg' align=right alt='Jabra BT200' \/>I have even been using mine shown t the right for years. One of my favorite books is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ender's_Game\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em><\/a> by Orson Scott Card and in the second book of the series, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speaker_for_the_Dead\" target=\"_blank\">Speaker for the Dead<\/a><\/em> the main character, Ender Wiggin, speaks to a computer (Jane) through a gem he keeps in his ear. Every time I see someone walking around with a headset, I can&#8217;t help but think of that.<\/p>\n<p>While at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CostCo<\/a> returning a broken fan set, I saw a woman in the checkout lane who had two different headsets, one in each ear. I can only presume she is some \u00fcber type-A person like a realtor, but when you&#8217;re not in your car, those headsets just look funny and that looked worse than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Since my current headset is getting a little weak due to a severly aging battery, I&#8217;ll probably have to pick up a new one sometime soon. The one Apple made to compliment the new iPhone is quite nice and <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/1-800-MY-APPLE\/WebObjects\/AppleStore?productLearnMore=MA817LL\/A\" target=\"_blank\"><em>really<\/em> small<\/a>. I&#8217;ve also heard really good things about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jawbone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jawbone<\/a> (the demo on the site is very impressive), and the noise cancellation would be useful in the car, but I&#8217;m inclined to go for something more compact (and presumably lighter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course everyone has seen Bluetooth headsets that you can get for most cell phones these days. I have even been using mine shown t the right for years. One of my favorite books is Ender&#8217;s Game by Orson Scott &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek","category-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}