{"id":181,"date":"2008-07-28T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-07-28T12:52:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T19:52:58","slug":"this-chair-is-worth-2-playstations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/this-chair-is-worth-2-playstations\/","title":{"rendered":"This chair is worth 2 playstations&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/001146.html\">blog entry on chairs<\/a> (did I mention the huge number of blogs in my Google Reader?) and was shocked to see a picture of the exact chair I was sitting on.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a closer look, I realized that indeed, I was sitting in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0006NUB5U\/\">$979 chair<\/a>. I think the best proof of how great this chair is in the fact that <em>I never thought about my chair<\/em>. This is in sharp contrast to the days of cursing at my crappy chair in Japan which didn&#8217;t even have back support beyond the first 5 lower vertebrae.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for working as a software developer for Library services. I also have a dual-monitor Dell dev box and a MacBook Pro for work. We&#8217;re located in Fremont, the center of the universe, a great location in Seattle. The atmosphere is really great and laid back as well. We&#8217;re currently really hurting for Database and QA resources so if you&#8217;re interested, take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cytiva.com\/pquest\/cojobs.asp?UseCust=True&#038;UseCustDur=True&#038;GenAppURL=&#038;Keyword=&#038;Location=5&#038;Category=\">list of our open positions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this blog entry on chairs (did I mention the huge number of blogs in my Google Reader?) and was shocked to see a picture of the exact chair I was sitting on. Taking a closer look, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/this-chair-is-worth-2-playstations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-puchi-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}