{"id":329,"date":"2003-07-22T19:30:54","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/22\/bad-apple\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T01:59:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T05:59:33","slug":"bad-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/22\/bad-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a241\"><\/a>  The Mac expert at the computer place finally got back from vacation.  It turns out that the motherboard on my iBook is fried.  I have no idea what this means, except that it&#8217;s going to cost much much more to repair than fixing a VCR, which costs less to repair, but still costs more than buying a new VCR.  In Canada, I&#8217;m looking at nearly $900 to repair this thing, plus 7% Provincial Sales Tax and 7.5% Goods and Services Tax (or vice versa).  Anyway, 14.5% sales tax in total.  I also don&#8217;t know if it will make my laptop reliably functional, or if it will be subject to further troubles.    I totally blame it on the missing feng shui centre of this L-shaped house of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mac expert at the computer place finally got back from vacation. It turns out that the motherboard on my iBook is fried. I have no idea what this means, except that it&#8217;s going to cost much much more to repair than fixing a VCR, which costs less to repair, but still costs more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}