{"id":175,"date":"2006-06-20T19:35:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T23:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2006\/06\/20\/my-new-toy\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T17:42:49","slug":"my-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2006\/06\/20\/my-new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/files\/2006\/06\/iQue3600.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve been using growing up as an excuse to buy more and more expensive toys&#8212;that&#8217;s both more toys and more expensive toys, not just super expensive toys. My latest, emergency purchase was this sexy GPS\/Palm device produced by Garmin, a respected name in GPS technology. Behold the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garmin.com\/products\/iQue3600\/\">iQue 3600<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a fairly old technology by technology standards, and I would&#8217;ve prefered its updated, sleek cousin the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garmin.com\/products\/iQueM4\/\">M4<\/a>, but I couldn&#8217;t stomach the price. After all, I can&#8217;t even afford the street price of the iQue 3600. Luckily, these things have been around long enough (read: a year) that they&#8217;ve shown up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubid.com\/Garmin_iQue_3600_Handheld_PDA%2fGPS_System\/a10701971-rsearchall.html\">ubid.com<\/a>. Go quick and you&#8217;ll beat my winning bid by two dollars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI totally would&#8217;ve rocked everyone else at those boy scout orienteering competitions if I had this bad boy instead of my crude but trusty compass.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso, on the less expensive more toys front, I received <b>A Primer of Algebraic <i>D<\/i>-modules<\/b> in the mail today. &#8220;This book introduces <i>D<\/i>-modules and their applications avoiding all unnecessary over-sophistication.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s like Christmas in July. In June!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using growing up as an excuse to buy more and more expensive toys&#8212;that&#8217;s both more toys and more expensive toys, not just super expensive toys. My latest, emergency purchase was this sexy GPS\/Palm device produced by Garmin, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2006\/06\/20\/my-new-toy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}