{"id":90,"date":"2006-08-14T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2006-08-29T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T23:58:50","slug":"monday-pot-pourri-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/14\/monday-pot-pourri-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Pot Pourri &#8211; Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSame rules apply, here are some items I found useful, entertaining, silly, interesting, etc. There is no relationship intended between them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/business\/special_packages\/venture_capital_survey\/15245545.htm\">Venture Funding alive and well<\/a> in the Valley as reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenewsblog.com\/cgi-bin\/snblog.pl?snblog=807061\">46,000 of pieces of plastic<\/a> per square mile of ocean! I believe it, we see a fair amount wash up on our beaches.\n<li>Hot tip: Buy science text book publishers. If the redefinition of what a constitutes a planet pass, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060813\/sc_nm\/science_pluto_dc_3\">Pluto is history and we&#8217;ll get up to 14 newly defined planetary bodies<\/a> in our solar system.\n<li>Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000638\/\">William Shatner<\/a> still alive? Apparently so and he wants <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060814\/tc_nm\/life_shatner_startrek_dc_2\">to save Star Trek from fan apathy<\/a>. Too late, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/find?s=all&#038;q=star+trek\">after 5 series and 10 movies<\/a>, I think Star Trek should be allowed to fade into the sunset. Please. It&#8217;s time.\n<li>For Ohio State&#8217;s defense this year, talent isn&#8217;t the issue. It&#8217;s experience. Let&#8217;s hope these young people mature in a hurry with big games early at Texas and at Iowa. <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostate.scout.com\/2\/556301.html\">Coach Heacock talks about their progress here<\/a>.\n<li>Your tax dollars at work (I&#8217;m sure glad we sent the National Guard in to help.) We&#8217;ve got to protect our borders <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060814\/od_nm\/usa_cheese_dc_1\">from ROGUE CHEESE!<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadspin.com\/sports\/tag\/a-plea-for-televised-wiffle-ball-193873.php\">Televised Wiffle ball<\/a>? Please, no! Next up: professional grass championships &#8211; growing it that is.\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenewsblog.com\/pics\/killerkangaroo.gif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenewsblog.com\/cgi-bin\/snblog.pl?snblog=808601\">KillerRoos<\/a>, the lesser known cousin of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kangaroo\">Kangaroo<\/a>, once galloped through the outback looking for meat&#8230;.\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<small>Technorati Tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/humor\" rel=\"tag\"> Humor<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/science\"> Science<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ohio+state+football\"> Ohio State Football<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Same rules apply, here are some items I found useful, entertaining, silly, interesting, etc. There is no relationship intended between them. Venture Funding alive and well in the Valley as reported by the San Jose Mercury News. 46,000 of pieces of plastic per square mile of ocean! I believe it, we see a fair amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}