{"id":8703,"date":"2016-02-24T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8703"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:08:25","slug":"it-has-now-occurred-to-me-that-i-may-be-suffering-from-science-related-memetic-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/24\/it-has-now-occurred-to-me-that-i-may-be-suffering-from-science-related-memetic-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"it has now occurred to me that I may be suffering from science-related memetic disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realised this morning that I could totally add Bluetooth to this monster of a stage monitor I&#8217;ve been rebuilding and upgrading. I&#8217;ve made it self-powered and compliant to modern specs, <Em>why stop there?<\/eM> It&#8217;s portable! It even has a handle!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-02\/bluetooth-ready.jpg\"><br \/><i>48 pounds! Two pounds less than a standard bag of concrete! PORTABLE!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I mean, okay, sure, I&#8217;d need a second one to deliver full stereo, but I could do that <em>because I have two of them<\/em> and could put on another jack to share channel two over to the second speaker and and and IT COULD WORK!<\/p>\n<p>Someone please put a towel over my head.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>This post is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/the-saga-of-the-infamously-terrible-stage-monitors-made-good\/\">a series on restoring infamous vintage stage monitors<\/a>. Spoiler: they made good, in the end.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realised this morning that I could totally add Bluetooth to this monster of a stage monitor I&#8217;ve been rebuilding and upgrading. I&#8217;ve made it self-powered and compliant to modern specs, why stop there? It&#8217;s portable! It even has a handle! 48 pounds! Two pounds less than a standard bag of concrete! PORTABLE! I mean, [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-touring-equipment-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}