{"id":2577,"date":"2004-06-10T04:17:22","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/10\/ink-or-champagne\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:49:24","slug":"ink-or-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/10\/ink-or-champagne\/","title":{"rendered":"Ink or champagne?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up (in a way) on my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/why_bother_buyi.html\" title=\"Why bother buying ink?\">printer ink woes<\/a>, today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/33584\" title=\"What a Racket\">MetaFilter points out<\/a> that by volume, printer ink is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/allnews\/tm_objectid=14315717%26method=full%26siteid=50143%26headline=liquid%2dgold-name_page.html\" title=\"Liquid Gold\">six times more expensive than Dom Perignon<\/a> champagne.<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t bothered to replace my printer, though I need to at some point &#8212; I&#8217;m just still pissy about spending the money on the ink just to find out that my printer was dead. Still, at the moment, as long as I don&#8217;t mind waiting for a bit I can just bring anything I need printed out to work (side benefits of working in a copy shop), so I&#8217;m not entirely without options. It&#8217;s still a frustrating situation, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Get Bizzy Time&#8221; by Voight Kampff from the album <em>In to the Mix II: The 2nd Coming<\/em> (1998, 5:03).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up (in a way) on my printer ink woes, MetaFilter today points out that by volume, printer ink is six times more expensive than Dom Perignon champagne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2038],"tags":[13,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577"}],"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=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}