{"id":546,"date":"2004-07-27T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=546"},"modified":"2004-07-27T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T19:50:14","slug":"blowing_bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought about getting a few shares of Google during its IPO<\/a>, but no way am I dropping a C-note and change for one measly share. Didn’t we learn our lesson from the dot com bust a few years ago? I’m a big fan of Google, but all this manufactured hype and outrageously priced stocks smells suspiciously like 1999.
\nI’m back in my old wheelchair again. The ventilator tray on the new chair is screwing up the chair’s balance, causing it to tip whenever I turn and the wheels to spin in place when I try to go backwards. Not cool. I’m a little frustrated with the supply company for not doing a better job of addressing these problems before I took the chair home and discovered them on my own. They’re promising to fix it next week, but they don’t sound too confident. The chair is a very new model and nobody has ever tried to put a vent tray on it before now. Which makes me the proverbial guinea pig, which in turn is a proverbial pain in the ass.
\nOne advantage of having an All-In-Wonder card is that I can throw up a see-through window that doesn’t cover up the underlying workspace. I have CNN right now and Kennedy just finished speaking. I think that’s the first time I’ve heard Bush’s name mentioned during the convention. The best speech I’ve heard so far is Bill Clinton’s. He illustrated the differences between the Democratic and Republican agendas with shrewdness and panache. You want tax breaks for the wealthy and more debt burden on your kids? Vote Republican. You want better health care coverage for your kids and budget surpluses? Vote Democratic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought about getting a few shares of Google during its IPO, but no way am I dropping a C-note and change for one measly share. Didn’t we learn our lesson from the dot com bust a few years ago? I’m a big fan of Google, but all this manufactured hype and outrageously priced stocks […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-8O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}