{"id":180,"date":"2010-05-27T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2010-06-20T22:11:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:11:49","slug":"scavengers-amazement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Scavengers amazement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just want to say, I&#8217;m always amazed by the things people throw away these days.<br \/>\nIf the adjustable bed I found a few weeks back that&#8217;d only had the cable pulled out (contained some ok motors, a lot of angle iron, two 250Watt linear actuators and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=182\">proof of my disgust of commercial medical equipment design<\/a>), today I found a 19&#8243; TFT monitor, a proper powered photo-scanner and a PC base unit with a dual-CPU mainboard (admittedly full of twigs, but it&#8217;s been dry recently and it was under a tree).<\/p>\n<p>I asked the householder first, and they said the monitor still worked when it went out. After a day of safety drying time and checking inside the housing for debris, I&#8217;ll give it a go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starborneworks.com\/offsiteimages\/creative_blog\/Folder11\/Dscf2276.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starborneworks.com\/offsiteimages\/creative_blog\/Folder11\/Dscf2276sml.jpg\" width=648 height=486 title=\"\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How old will I be when someone just chucks out their old household Replicator or robot servant because they can&#8217;t be bothered to feed it into the recycler?<\/p>\n<p><em>[20\/06\/2010: Amalgamating old posts from &#8220;Dreamwidth Creative Blog&#8221; into sci-fi-fox.com to re-purpose DW blog account.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just want to say, I&#8217;m always amazed by the things people throw away these days. If the adjustable bed I found a few weeks back that&#8217;d only had the cable pulled out (contained some ok motors, a lot of angle iron, two 250Watt linear actuators and proof of my disgust of commercial medical equipment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scavengers amazement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[45,28],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scavenging-2","tag-edit-later","tag-scavenging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}