{"id":2065,"date":"2003-12-25T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2003-12-26T06:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/25\/talk-about-geek-heaven\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T23:02:03","slug":"talk-about-geek-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/25\/talk-about-geek-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about geek heaven!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 'Glow Grave'\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/12\/graphics\/geekheaven.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"362\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just stumbled across this while perusing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ship-of-fools.com\/kitschmas\/index.html\" title=\"The 12 Days of Kitchmas\">Ship of Fools&#8217; 12 Days of Kitchmas<\/a> (which is well-worth visiting in itself), and just cannot get over this item: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ship-of-fools.com\/kitschmas\/08.html\" title=\"The Glow Grave\">&#8216;Glow Grave&#8217;<\/a> &#8212; a stainless-steel grave marker complete with an LCD display that can be hooked into a PC interface to change the epitaph whenever you want!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t. Stop. Laughing.<\/p>\n<p>All I want to do is put a motion detector or pressure sensor on one of these things and hook it into a computer attached to the display so that it can dynamically react to people coming by to visit the grave site. Once it detects someone standing at the grave site, the screen would suddenly start displaying messages from the dear departed&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;I see you!&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8220;Hey, buster, you&#8217;re on my head.&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8220;It&#8217;s hot down here!&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8220;I knew it &#8212; God uses a Mac.&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8220;Help! There&#8217;s no air!&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8220;These worms really itch.&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8220;God <em>is<\/em> a woman after all!&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8220;You&#8217;re next.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:12582,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ship-of-fools.com\\\/kitschmas\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12583,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ship-of-fools.com\\\/kitschmas\\\/08.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stainless-steel grave marker complete with an LCD display that can be hooked into a PC interface to change the epitaph whenever you want!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}