{"id":377,"date":"2010-08-27T21:40:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T21:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2014-02-08T17:46:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T17:46:42","slug":"we-gotta-move-these-colour-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/we-gotta-move-these-colour-tvs\/","title":{"rendered":"We gotta move these colour TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new laptop arrived on Tuesday, and it&#8217;s brilliant. Dual core processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard disk &#8211; these might not be all that impressive, but after the five year old laptop I was stuck with it runs like a dream to me. And nevermind the specs, my favourite thing about it is that it&#8217;s <strong>so quiet<\/strong>. I can barely hear the fan at all, so it&#8217;s great for watching DVDs &#8211; and even the built in speakers aren&#8217;t bad for a laptop. The big sharp screen is actually making me wish I&#8217;d shelled out for a Blu-Ray model though &#8211; and I&#8217;ve always been cynical about Blu-Ray!<\/p>\n<p>Of course like the big geek that I am, I&#8217;ve been playing with my new toy every chance I get. One of the things I wanted to try, which I wouldn&#8217;t even have attempted on the old one, is some POV-Ray. Anyway I had a bit of a bash at it tonight, and it&#8217;s surprisingly easy to get nice looking results. Here&#8217;s something I whipped up and am using as a new desktop (click to see it full size).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/foo2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-619\" alt=\"foo2\" src=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/foo2-1024x768.png\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/foo2-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/foo2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/foo2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new laptop arrived on Tuesday, and it&#8217;s brilliant. Dual core processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard disk &#8211; these might not be all that impressive, but after the five year old laptop I was stuck with it runs like a dream to me. And nevermind the specs, my favourite thing about it is that it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/we-gotta-move-these-colour-tvs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We gotta move these colour TVs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}