{"id":58,"date":"2006-11-09T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snee.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/09\/why-some-days-seem-to-go-on-and-on-and-on-and-on\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T16:36:24","slug":"why-some-days-seem-to-go-on-and-on-and-on-and-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"why some days seem to go on and on and on and on&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know the thing &#8211; you think you&#8217;ve been hard at work for hours and you glance at the clock to find 10 minutes have passed. Here&#8217;s how I explain it, using the <a title=\"BASIC\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BASIC\">BASIC<\/a> programming language:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"courier new,courier\"><span class=\"snippet\">                  10 start work<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"courier new,courier\"><span class=\"snippet\">20 for a =1 to 2 step 0<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"courier new,courier\"><span class=\"snippet\">30 next a<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"courier new,courier\"><span class=\"snippet\">40 end work<\/span><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"snippet\">and THAT&#8217;s why some days go on for so long&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BTW: line 20 has a &#8216;step 0&#8217; command &#8211; this means the count will NEVER get to 2<\/p>\n<p>Ah, BASIC&#8230;when monitors came in 2 colours &#8211; green text on a black screen, and only one font and font size.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>When I first got into computers, the school had these:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"136\" border=\"0\" alt=\"TRS80 Model II\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zock.com\/8-Bit\/TRS80-IIa.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<p>My first home computer was an <a title=\"Atom specs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.1000bit.net\/scheda.asp?id=149\">Acorn Atom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"138\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Acorn Atom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1000bit.net\/lista\/dati\/acorn\/atom\/atom_m2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And yes &#8211; it was expanded to a massive 12k RAM and 12k ROM &#8211; those were the days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the thing &#8211; you think you&#8217;ve been hard at work for hours and you glance at the clock to find 10 minutes have passed. Here&#8217;s how I explain it, using the BASIC programming language: 10 start work 20 for a =1 to 2 step 0 30 next a 40 end work and THAT&#8217;s why some days go on for so long&#8230; BTW: line 20 has a &#8216;step 0&#8217; command &#8211; this means the count will NEVER get to 2 Ah, BASIC&#8230;when monitors came in 2 colours &#8211; green text on a black screen, and only one font and [&hellip;]<\/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-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}