{"id":26567,"date":"2023-02-20T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26567"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:23:07","slug":"the-enstickering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/02\/20\/the-enstickering\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enstickering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago, I replaced my old hand-me-down laptop (a 10-year old MacBook Pro) with a shiny new M2 MacBook Air &#8212; my first brand-new laptop. And while it is very pretty, and it was tempting to leave it as-is&#8230;after a couple months of dithering, I decided to go ahead and personalize it with some of the stickers I&#8217;ve had sitting in a drawer for ages.<\/p>\n<p>After all, what&#8217;s the point of keeping stickers in a drawer? There&#8217;s always the &#8220;I&#8217;ll put these on something&#8230;someday&#8230;&#8221; thought, and finally, &#8220;someday&#8221; is here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/m2_stickers-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A black Apple MacBook Air with seven stickers applied.\" title=\"m2_stickers.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>In pride of place, dead center, covering the embedded shiny Apple logo, is a vintage rainbow Apple sticker. I&#8217;m not entirely sure how long I&#8217;ve been hanging on to this, but it has got to be close to a couple decades since Apple went all monochrome. I have one of these left, too.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Top left: &#8220;I was a Mac user when Apple was doomed.&#8221; From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselsweeties.com\">R. Stevens of Diesel Sweeties<\/a>. I have the t-shirt, too. And it&#8217;s true!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Center left: <a href=\"https:\/\/gothicprideseattle.org\">Gothic Pride Seattle<\/a>, repping the local SeaGoth community.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Bottom left: &#8220;Computer, end program.&#8221; How do you turn this damn holodeck off, anyway? Don&#8217;t remember the source.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Top center: &#8220;Creepy but Careful&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teepublic.com\/user\/amberstone\">AmberStone<\/a>, received as a bonus goodie when I got some of their vaccine-supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/AmberStoneArt\">enamel pins<\/a> early in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Center right: &#8220;Highly illogical.&#8221; Yes, Spock, we know. Don&#8217;t remember the source.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Bottom right: Doom! Didn&#8217;t initially remember the source, but it has a URL for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chanceofdoom.com\">Chance of Doom<\/a>, a webcomic by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roberttritthardt.com\">Robert Tritthardt<\/a>, also part of the local SeaGoth community, so I probably got it from him at one point or another, possibly along with a Mercury shirt or hoodie or with one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writheandshine.com\">Writhe and Shine<\/a> books I have.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all, what&#8217;s the point of keeping stickers in a drawer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043,2049],"tags":[4278,118,4279,4282,4277,4276,4281,156,4097,4280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567"}],"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=26567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}