{"id":2428,"date":"2014-03-27T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2014-03-27T21:00:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T01:00:59","slug":"march-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/march-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"March Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2429\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140308_163951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2429\" alt=\"Latest Picks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140308_163951-300x222.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140308_163951-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140308_163951-1024x757.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latest Picks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No NCAA Basketball bracket for me this year, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t have any good picks this month.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skechers is making legitimately good running shoes these days. \u00a0The original Go Runs are more comfortable than the Mizuno Elixirs that Mizuno stopped making as soon as I liked them. I&#8217;ll probably try out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skechers.com\/style\/53931\/skechers-gobionic-2\/rdbk#Color=CCOR\">Skechers&#8217; Go Bionics<\/a> in the next rotation.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m about 99% Google-powered now. <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/devices\/details\/Nexus_5_16GB_Black?id=nexus_5_black_16gb\">Nexus 5<\/a>, Google Docs, Gmail, and now a $199 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Acer-C720-Chromebook-11-6-Inch-2GB\/dp\/B00FNPD1VW\">Chromebook<\/a> has moved into our house. I&#8217;m having trouble finding anything it can&#8217;t do. You can open an SSH session in a tab, you can get a terabyte of storage for $10 a month, Chrome apps seem to be good enough for the occasional image edit or other task typically done by a local software package. For $6 a month you can develop with <a href=\"https:\/\/shiftedit.net\/login\">ShiftEdit<\/a>, which works well for sites that require better vim skills than I possess.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdist.com\/podcast\/nerdist\/\">The Nerdist Podcast <\/a>has become my favored running podcast. If it&#8217;s amusing, it&#8217;s entertaining; if it&#8217;s annoying, it&#8217;s incentive to run faster to escape listening to any more of it. Win win. I tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.sixtostart.zombiesrun\">train against zombies<\/a> for as long as I could, but once I found out how to cheat (just wave your arm really fast when the zombies catch up to you), I couldn&#8217;t really justify the extra heavy breathing in my ear.<\/li>\n<li>If this Nest-like, learn your habits, control over the internet with your smartphone, window unit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirky.com\/aros\">Quirky Aros\u00a0air conditioner<\/a> actually gets made, I&#8217;m all over it. The less I&#8217;m home, the more I want to scare the ridgeback with wifi-sensitive appliances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No NCAA Basketball bracket for me this year, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t have any good picks this month. Skechers is making legitimately good running shoes these days. \u00a0The original Go Runs are more comfortable than the Mizuno Elixirs that Mizuno stopped making as soon as I liked them. I&#8217;ll probably try out Skechers&#8217; &#8230; <a title=\"March Picks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/march-picks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about March Picks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}