{"id":4375,"date":"2011-03-24T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2011-03-31T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:44:55","slug":"von-neumanns-cleaning-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=4375","title":{"rendered":"Von Neumann&#8217;s Cleaning Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting ready to purchase a new HDTV. (In fact, this will be the first television I&#8217;ve actually <i>bought<\/i>, as opposed to being a hand-me-down. From this you may correctly infer that I&#8217;m a <del>cheapass tightwad<\/del> very frugal. I&#8217;m also not a bleeding edge consumer, and have a very high saving throw vs. shiny.) So I thought I should vacuum before I got the new TV. But before I could vacuum I needed to put up some of the odds and ends that had accumulated in the room, such as CDs, DVDs, equipment boxes, etc. But before I could do that, I needed to move some things around in the guest room so I could move some things in there. But before I could do that, I needed to box up some old computer equipment. But before I could do that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was like the punchline to a Dilbert strip: Thanks to proper ordering, I <i>almost<\/i> vacuumed something. The curse of the semi-clean and semi-organized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting ready to purchase a new HDTV. (In fact, this will be the first television I&#8217;ve actually bought, as opposed to being a hand-me-down. From this you may correctly infer that I&#8217;m a cheapass tightwad very frugal. I&#8217;m also not a bleeding edge consumer, and have a very high saving throw vs. shiny.) So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[474],"tags":[34,1987],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","tag-self-indulgent-crap","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4442,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}