{"id":642,"date":"2011-12-26T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2011-12-26T08:27:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T14:27:50","slug":"christmas-bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alternate title: Why Amazon Wish Lists have made Christmas so much better.*<\/p>\n

I didn’t get anything that made me say “Why the heck would you think I might use that?<\/i>” Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n

Belkin F8Z492-P Bluetooth Music Receiver<\/a>\"\": I haven’t listened to the radio in months…probably nearly a year. I download podcasts to my Nexus One and then plug in to auxiliary jack and listen to them on my commute. I wanted this little guy to help me with a little alternator whine problem I’ve been having and generally make my dashboard appearance less cluttered (There are currently cables for my phone’s power and the 1\/8″ audio coming out of the top of my AC vents). My only disappointment with this device is entirely in the marketing photos. All the photos show a single wire coming off the device while it’s in operation, leading me to believe it is powered by a rechargeable battery. It is not. You have to have an external power supply, which I’m going to make. Stay tuned \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Fenix E21 Flashlight<\/a>\"\": This thing is awesome. I’ve never had a “tactical flashlight” that wasn’t attached to a weapon, so I didn’t know what I was missing. I got the AA model since, well, everything else I have uses AAs. That might have been a mistake since the 2AA model is significantly longer than the more expensive CR123A model<\/a>. It’s brighter than my M6<\/a> that lives on my Glock. I used it last night and this morning while walking Casey and it is really, really bright.<\/p>\n

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)<\/a>\"\": I talked about the audio version<\/a> a couple of weeks ago and how I needed to get the book for reference. Really glad I got this.<\/p>\n

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work<\/a>\"\": Someone, I can’t remember who, recommended this book to me recently. My life is almost entirely digital and I have this yearning to work with my hands. It’s almost a spiritual need for me but I haven’t really done much.<\/p>\n

Atlas Shrugged: Part One [Blu-ray]<\/a>\"\": My liberal college professor aunt bought me this. I didn’t love the movie<\/a>, but I threw it on my wish list anyway for the special features and to maybe get them to finish out the series.<\/p>\n

The Expendables (Three-Disc Blu-ray\/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)<\/a>\"\": I don’t care who you are<\/a>, this movie was fun<\/i>.<\/p>\n

So how’d you guys make out?<\/p>\n

*[Yes, I know Christmas is about celebrating Christ’s birth and spending time with family, but this isn’t a blog about that. As a teenager, I got really turned off by people “sneaking” proselytizing into my life and it probably delayed my acceptance of Him by a decade. If I’m going to blog about my faith here, it’ll probably be on Easter since that’s a much bigger deal to me.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alternate title: Why Amazon Wish Lists have made Christmas so much better.* I didn’t get anything that made me say “Why the heck would you think I might use that?” Here are the highlights: Belkin F8Z492-P Bluetooth Music Receiver: I haven’t listened to the radio in months…probably nearly a year. I download podcasts to my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}