{"id":1192,"date":"2019-01-06T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2019-01-04T05:13:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T10:13:34","slug":"week-01-2019-catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Week 01, 2019 &#8211; Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Year, new chance to fail at making weekly updates! It&#8217;s never too early to start missing deadlines!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a couple blog posts that have been in draft form for way too long, and a few things I haven&#8217;t written about yet, <em>and<\/em> some big news.\u00a0 All of which I&#8217;ll be sure to never get around to posting, in the fullness of time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I did a thing. A very rash, impulsive, irresponsible, positively\u00a0<em>mad<\/em>, thing; I got a Windows Mixed Reality headset and motion controller bundle.\u00a0 Namely a Lenovo Explorer.\u00a0 I seem to have gotten one of the last ones off the Microsoft Store, because they almost immediately went to <em>Sold Out<\/em>, and most places are listing them as &#8216;Discontinued&#8217;.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll do a thorough write-up later, once I&#8217;ve had it a few more days, for now here&#8217;s a preview of the unboxing pics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wc-gallery\"><div id='gallery-1' data-gutter-width='5' data-columns='2' class='gallery wc-gallery-captions-onhover gallery-link-file gallery-masonry galleryid-1192 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large wc-gallery-bottomspace-default wc-gallery-clear'><div class='gallery-item gallery-item-position-1 gallery-item-attachment-1193'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_01-1024x683.jpg' title='lenex_01' target='_self'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_01-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_01-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_01.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class='gallery-item gallery-item-position-2 gallery-item-attachment-1194'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_02-1024x614.jpg' title='lenex_02' target='_self'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_02-1024x614.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_02-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_02-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_02-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_02.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class='gallery-item gallery-item-position-3 gallery-item-attachment-1195'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_03-1024x683.jpg' title='lenex_03' target='_self'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_03-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_03-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_03.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class='gallery-item gallery-item-position-4 gallery-item-attachment-1196'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_04-1024x683.jpg' title='lenex_04' target='_self'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_04-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_04-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_04.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year, new chance to fail at making weekly updates! It&#8217;s never too early to start missing deadlines! I&#8217;ve got a couple blog posts that have been in draft form for way too long, and a few things I haven&#8217;t written about yet, and some big news.\u00a0 All of which I&#8217;ll be sure to never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-status-report"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NlLW-je","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2019\/01\/lenex_04.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}