{"id":2076,"date":"2002-11-16T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-16T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/16\/funny-thing-happened-when-i-was\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:27:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:27:39","slug":"funny-thing-happened-when-i-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/16\/funny-thing-happened-when-i-was\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a funny thing happened when i was walking to my friend&#8217;s car after the<br \/>\nOtherMinds film festival (which was great, btw).  I was walking up Market<br \/>\nStreet in San Francisco, away from Castro when I stepped over something on<br \/>\nthe sidewalk.  My friend said, &#8220;Is that a Moog?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I looked back at the box i just stepped over and it said &#8220;Octave Cat&#8221;<br \/>\non it.  I went for a closer look.  No knobs.  No insides, just a power<br \/>\ntransformer.  It was dark and rainging out.  I said, &#8220;Grab it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So now I have an empty Octave Cat cover sitting in my studio.  It&#8217;s in<br \/>\npretty good shape, considering.  A couple of dings, but all the text on<br \/>\nthe outside looks good.  couple of scratches below the keys (or rather,<br \/>\nwhere the keys belong).  It&#8217;s a good looking case all in all.<\/p>\n<p>And it could be YOURS for FREE!  You pickup or pay shipping. This is a<br \/>\nlimitted time offer.  The garbage collection comes one week from today.<br \/>\nYou may be thinking, &#8220;Why would I need a cover? I already have an Octave<br \/>\nCat cover for my Octave Cat.&#8221;  Well, maybe your cover has become<br \/>\nillegible.  Maybe you&#8217;re looking for &#8220;street cred.&#8221;  Maybe you have always<br \/>\nwanted a wild and crazy paint job for your wild and crazy sound, but<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t bring yourself to modify your one and only cover for it.<\/p>\n<p>What I have exactly:  Top and sides (no bottom) of metal cover for an<br \/>\noctave Cat (or so it claims) with a transformer inside (untested).  All of<br \/>\nthis was recovered from the side walk of Market Street by Castro.  If you<br \/>\nsee something with keys and electronics lying in the street there, I may<br \/>\nhave the other piece!<\/p>\n<p>This lovely, hardly abused cover will go to the first person who contacts<br \/>\nme.  It is available for pickup in sunny Berkeley, California, USA.  I may<br \/>\nbe persuaded to drop it by your place if you&#8217;re someplace nearby and have<br \/>\na good sob story about lack of transportation.  I can also bring it to<br \/>\nPalo Alto residents, since I have an Esperanto class at Stanford and I<br \/>\nhave to go to Palo Alto once a week anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a funny thing happened when i was walking to my friend&#8217;s car after the OtherMinds film festival (which was great, btw). I was walking up Market Street in San Francisco, away from Castro when I stepped over something on the sidewalk. My friend said, &#8220;Is that a Moog?&#8221; So I looked back at the box &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/16\/funny-thing-happened-when-i-was\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,326],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-freecycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}