{"id":281,"date":"2006-06-29T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2006-07-01T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T16:45:39","slug":"cell-phone-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/cell-phone-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Games&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What <strong>&#8220;Peanut Head&#8221;<\/strong> writes those games, anyway?&#8230;&#8230;.  I have a <strong>Motorola V60i<\/strong> which is ancient by today&#8217;s standards and it has only three games on it in the first place&#8230;&#8230;  You&#8217;d think that they would make them so that you could at least have a 50-50 chance of winning &#8211; better still, they should be made so you win over 75% of the time&#8230;&#8230;  Why?&#8230;..  About the only time I ever use them is at the doctor&#8217;s office or somewhere you need to kill some time, usually waiting on something that you are stressed-out about in the first place&#8230;&#8230;  S-o-o-o, I&#8217;m at the VA in the waiting room and decide to play a little <em>&#8220;blackjack&#8221;<\/em> to ease the tension and take-up some time&#8230;&#8230;  I can&#8217;t win one out ten hands!&#8230;&#8230;  I get 21 and the damn cell phone gets 21 &#8211; tie &#8211; <strong>it wins<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;  I hold on 20 and it gets 20 or 21 with up to five cards &#8211; <strong>it wins<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;  I get 17, decide to hit and get a face card &#8211; <strong>it wins<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;.  I&#8217;m now so mad at the cell phone it&#8217;s destructo-time, although, I guess I&#8217;m not as mad at the waiting room wait now, so there is some good to it, but, I would have been much happier and the time would have passed just as fast if I would have won most of the games&#8230;..  Hell, I would have been happy with being even&#8230;&#8230;.  <em>Damn programmers!&#8230;&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What &#8220;Peanut Head&#8221; writes those games, anyway?&#8230;&#8230;. I have a Motorola V60i which is ancient by today&#8217;s standards and it has only three games on it in the first place&#8230;&#8230; You&#8217;d think that they would make them so that you could at least have a 50-50 chance of winning &#8211; better still, they should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}