{"id":26368,"date":"2020-06-15T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26368"},"modified":"2020-06-15T10:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:04:23","slug":"du-toit-and-noggle-aligned-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/du-toit-and-noggle-aligned-again\/","title":{"rendered":"du Toit and Noggle, Aligned Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Kim du Toit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2020\/06\/15\/hard-media\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">echoes sentiments I have expressed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve never been a fan of \u201cCloud\u201d-based entertainment, whether literature or movies, because it\u2019s always seemed too easy for the \u201cCloud\u201d to remove stuff that you\u2019ve paid for \u2014 Kindle books, Amazon movies, etc. \u2014 at their own discretion \/ whim.  I don\u2019t care that my well-filled bookcases take up a great deal of space in my apartment, or that they\u2019d be a pain in the ass to move should I decide to live elsewhere;  I bought them, they\u2019re my property forever, and nobody can take them from me.  Ditto movies.  I have a large number of DVDs of the movies I love and can watch over and over again \u2014 not too many modern ones, because today\u2019s movies largely suck \u2014 and like my bookcases, my DVDs are eternal.  (I have a brand-new-in-the-box multi-format DVD player sitting in a closet in case the existing Philips gives up the ghost at some time in the future, and ALL my computers come with DVD players, just to be on the safe side.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you know, gentle reader, I still have <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/14\/on-george-of-the-jungle\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">videocassettes to watch<\/a>, so I even have backup videocassette players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Kim du Toit echoes sentiments I have expressed: I\u2019ve never been a fan of \u201cCloud\u201d-based entertainment, whether literature or movies, because it\u2019s always seemed too easy for the \u201cCloud\u201d to remove stuff that you\u2019ve paid for \u2014 Kindle books, Amazon movies, etc. \u2014 at their own discretion \/ whim. I don\u2019t care that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26369,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions\/26369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}