{"id":159683,"date":"2021-11-28T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=159683"},"modified":"2021-11-28T09:08:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T15:08:25","slug":"the-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-pits\/","title":{"rendered":"The pits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent much of the holiday weekend updating my computer&#8217;s operating system and dealing with the consequences. While banging my head against the wall, I reflected on how Macintosh computers have evolved over the years and what is likely in the future. If Apple continues naming its operating systems after places in California, I have suggestions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/La-Brea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/La-Brea-640x447.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-159679\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/La-Brea-640x447.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/La-Brea-1024x715.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/La-Brea-768x536.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/La-Brea-1536x1072.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/La-Brea-2048x1429.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/La-Brea-1200x837.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Valley-of-Death.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Valley-of-Death-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-159681\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Valley-of-Death-640x480.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Valley-of-Death-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Valley-of-Death.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pelican-Island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pelican-Island-636x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-159680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pelican-Island-636x640.jpg 636w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pelican-Island-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pelican-Island-768x773.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pelican-Island.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before Mavericks and Yosemite, Macintosh operating systems were named for big cats. When Apple exhausts geography, they might consider botany. Manchineel, Gympie-Gympie and Gifblaar would all be splendid names for products of contemporary software giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent much of the holiday weekend updating my computer&#8217;s operating system and dealing with the consequences. While banging my head against the wall, I reflected on how Macintosh computers have evolved over the years and what is likely in the future. If Apple continues naming its operating systems after places in California, I have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-pits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The pits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[688,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-1","category-grumbling-and-muttering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Fxx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159687,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159683\/revisions\/159687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}