{"id":34416,"date":"2025-10-01T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34416"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:19:52","slug":"thirteen-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/01\/thirteen-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen Years On&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen years ago, I said:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/searsmonitor.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the shell of that empty Sears monitor sitting on a desk in my garage since then.  I haven&#8217;t settled on idea what to do with it.  Fishbowl?  Make it into a fake fireplace-style decoration?  I&#8217;ve also got the shells of a number of LCD monitors that I&#8217;ve planned to put corkboard in or whiteboard cut down from larger ones I pick up, but I&#8217;ve not jumped on that either.<\/p>\n<p>So much of the multi-year garage cleaning project is being overwhelmed by the sheer number and volume\/cubic footage I have of craft materials of various stripes that I&#8217;m not entirely sure I want to give up just yet.  I mean, what can I do with the computer monitor shell?  I&#8217;ve removed the cathode ray tube and electronics.  I could, I suppose, make it into a corkboard or a whiteboard using the bezel and scrap the rest.  Or maybe look for an LCD screen that fits it which I can put a Raspberry Pi in it for a digital picture frame or something.  But it&#8217;s not been pressing for the last thirteen years, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure I did something with the eMac bezel though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen years ago, I said: I&#8217;ve had the shell of that empty Sears monitor sitting on a desk in my garage since then. I haven&#8217;t settled on idea what to do with it. Fishbowl? Make it into a fake fireplace-style decoration? I&#8217;ve also got the shells of a number of LCD monitors that I&#8217;ve planned [&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-34416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34416","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=34416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34419,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34416\/revisions\/34419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}