{"id":1294,"date":"2007-08-24T16:10:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T20:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2007-08-24T16:10:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T20:10:29","slug":"on-doing-darwin-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"On Doing Darwin Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a few days ago about a Darwin Award winner &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/europe\/08\/20\/bear.death.reut\/index.html\">he was eaten by bears at a beer festival<\/a>.  Because, yes, everyone wants to get drunk in the bear cage in a zoo.<\/p>\n<p>The story I read this morning has a happier ending.<\/p>\n<p>A fourteen year-old North Carolina boy put his XBox 360 power supply&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/24\/xbox_teen\/\">&#8230;in a bucket of water.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 360 power supply, for those unaware, is about a foot long and weighs a good twenty pounds.  It&#8217;s one serious mofo piece of hardware.  And when you run your XBox 360, the power supply gets hot enough to fry an egg.  (Look on YouTube; I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find videos.)<\/p>\n<p>Wanting to cool down the very hot piece of equipment, the boy put it in a bowl of water.  Resulting in a <i>very<\/i> nasty electrical shock that left him unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonder nothing more serious happened.<\/p>\n<p>Let this be a lesson to us all.  Do <b>not<\/b> take your XBox 360 power supply and put it in water, <i>while you&#8217;re playing the system<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, don&#8217;t drink bear with beers.  Because that <i>never<\/i> ends well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a few days ago about a Darwin Award winner &mdash; he was eaten by bears at a beer festival. Because, yes, everyone wants to get drunk in the bear cage in a zoo. The story I read this morning has a happier ending. A fourteen year-old North Carolina boy put his XBox 360<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1294\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Doing Darwin Proud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[403,4091],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-darwin-awards","tag-video-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}