{"id":2815,"date":"2006-04-05T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/04\/05\/do-the-cool-jerk\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T15:08:17","slug":"do-the-cool-jerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/04\/05\/do-the-cool-jerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Cool Jerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8251'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ipodorabig.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"194\" align=\"left\">The<br \/>\n        Dowbrigade remains deeply embittered and betrayed by the premature death<br \/>\n        of his fourth-generation iPod at the tender age<br \/>\n        of 14 months, two months after the expiration of its warranty, converting<br \/>\n        it instantly into an attractive, leather-clad $300 doorjamb. Terminal<br \/>\n        hard drive failure, Apple offers 5% off a new &#8216;Pod.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The whole thing, coming as it did during our medical<br \/>\n        evacuation from South America and ensuing convalescence, turned our wandering<br \/>\n        stomach and soured us music altogether for awhile. But not even parsimonious<br \/>\n        indignation can surpress the need for a soundtrack for long, and we have<br \/>\n        started to ogle digital music players again. Any readers care to recommend<br \/>\n        a bare-bones sturdy player wit at least 1 gig of storage that plays<br \/>\n        well with iTunes?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">As it is, we are limited to listening to our tunes when<br \/>\n        at the computer, which means we have to put the TV news on closed captions<br \/>\n        and turn up the computer volume so snippets of video or sound files we<br \/>\n        play can be heard above the tunes. Currently playing: a playlist of old<br \/>\n        time dance-based pop songs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you wanna dance? (Beach Boys version)<\/li>\n<li>C&#8217;mon and Swim  (Bobby Freeman)<\/li>\n<li>The Watusi&nbsp;(The Vibrations!)<\/li>\n<li>The Tighten Up (Archie Bell and the Drells)<\/li>\n<li>Do the Funky Chicken (Rufus Thomas)<\/li>\n<li>The Loco-Motion (Little Eva)<\/li>\n<li>Do the Monster Mash (Bobby Boris Pickett)<\/li>\n<li>The Mashed Potato (Dee Dee Sharp)<\/li>\n<li>Do the Hanky Panky (Tommy James &amp; the Shondells)<\/li>\n<li>The Limbo Song (How low can you go?)<\/li>\n<li>The Cool Jerk (The Capitols)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">Remember any others? <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dowbrigade remains deeply embittered and betrayed by the premature death of his fourth-generation iPod at the tender age of 14 months, two months after the expiration of its warranty, converting it instantly into an attractive, leather-clad $300 doorjamb. Terminal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/04\/05\/do-the-cool-jerk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-screeds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}