{"id":1679,"date":"2010-04-01T07:46:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2010-03-30T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:24:05","slug":"morning-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/04\/morning-math.html","title":{"rendered":"Morning Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really too bad that Kim&#8217;s birthday just passed, because I think I&#8217;ve found the perfect gift.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/03\/27\/twist-alarm-clock-has-you-wring-math-equations-by-the-neck\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fengadget+%28Engadget%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">alarm clock that requires you to solve a simple math equation<\/a> to turn it off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/03\/27\/twist-alarm-clock-has-you-wring-math-equations-by-the-neck\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fengadget+%28Engadget%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Math Clock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/03\/3-26-10-twistalarmclock2.jpg\" alt=\"Math Clock\" width=\"466\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It provides the operand and the answer and you need to twist the two dials until the equation is correct.\u00a0 In the example above you would solve for &#8216;what&#8217; minus &#8216;what&#8217; equals 2?\u00a0 Which sounds simple as you&#8217;re sitting here reading this in a fully caffeinated state, but I suspect would pretty much guarantee you&#8217;d start every day off in a bad mood.<\/p>\n<p>On second thought, maybe it&#8217;s just as well her birthday has passed already.\u00a0 Maybe as an April fool&#8217;s gag?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really too bad that Kim&#8217;s birthday just passed, because I think I&#8217;ve found the perfect gift.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an alarm<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/04\/morning-math.html\" title=\"Read Morning Math\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-justforfun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}