{"id":44,"date":"2004-04-20T00:19:47","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T08:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=44"},"modified":"2013-08-11T22:33:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T05:33:50","slug":"stories-from-sony-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/04\/20\/stories-from-sony-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories from Sony (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have a new job, I no longer need to worry about bad-mouthing my Sony references. (Ha, just kidding.) Regardless, it&#8217;s an out-with-the-old, in-with-the-new kind of time, so over the next few days I&#8217;ll try to recount some stupid Sony stories:<\/p>\n<p>One of my coworkers wanted to buy a &#8220;game enhancer&#8221; for his PlayStation so he could play imported games. (Such devices also have less legitimate uses.) Another coworker told him about a store nearby that sold them, so we stopped by there after lunch one day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m looking for a &#8216;game enhancer,'&#8221; my coworker asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry, we don&#8217;t have any,&#8221; the clerk nervously replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t?  Well, are you expecting to get any more soon?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uhh&#8230; no&#8230; They didn&#8217;t seem very&#8230; reliable, so we stopped carrying them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh-kay&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As we left, my coworker asked me, &#8220;Did that guy seem to be acting a little weird to you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then we realized that his Sony ID badge was hanging prominently around his neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have a new job, I no longer need to worry about bad-mouthing my Sony references. (Ha, just kidding.) Regardless, it&#8217;s an out-with-the-old, in-with-the-new kind of time, so over the next few days I&#8217;ll try to recount some stupid Sony stories: One of my coworkers wanted to buy a &#8220;game enhancer&#8221; for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}