{"id":1461,"date":"2013-10-08T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2013-10-08T09:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:39:03","slug":"tuesday-8-october-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/10\/08\/tuesday-8-october-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 8 October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:39 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I just made a pot of Earl Grey tea. Our highs over the next few days are to be around 18C, with lows around 10C. That&#8217;s cool enough to be drinking tea.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The other night I tried to play a YouTube video. It worked fine, except there was no sound. At first, I though it was just me. But then I tried with two different browsers on my system and on Barbara&#8217;s. None of them had sound on YouTube, although sound worked fine on everything else. As it turns out, the problem is YouTube&#8217;s. They&#8217;ve screwed things up, and there are numerous complaints about it all over the web. Each time I start a new video, the sound level in the YouTube player is turned down to zero. It&#8217;s easy enough to fix for that video, but the fix is not persistent. YouTube says they&#8217;re working on it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We&#8217;re in pretty good shape on kit inventory, so I&#8217;m devoting some time to working on the earth science kit manual. I&#8217;m going to design it so that it can be used for a middle-school level earth &#038; space science lab course or as a high-school level physical geology and astronomy lab course. I already have samples of rock, mineral, and fossil specimens on the way in, and I hope we&#8217;ll be able to ship the first batch of 30 or 60 kits in time for summer session 2014.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:39 &#8211; I just made a pot of Earl Grey tea. Our highs over the next few days are to be around 18C, with lows around 10C. That&#8217;s cool enough to be drinking tea.\n<\/p>\n<p>The other night I tried to play a YouTube video. It worked fine, except there was no sound. At first, I though it was just me. But then I tried with two different browsers on my system and on Barbara&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/10\/08\/tuesday-8-october-2013\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 8 October 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}