{"id":585,"date":"2006-07-21T16:45:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T23:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2006-07-21T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T23:46:34","slug":"noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Noise!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago my computer started making all kinds of noises — grinding, vibrating, bad noises. I took the cover off and discovered, to my surprise, that instead of my hard disk going belly up, it was the fan. I pulled the fan out and took it down to the local computer parts store today. They had one so I brought it home and put it in at lunch. I started up the computer. The fan makes a huge amount of noise. Unlike the old one, it’s just the same constant loud whine. It’s going to drive me nuts. The dang thing cost me eight bucks! It ought to be quiet for that price. There’s nothing to do but order one online. So I went to Tiger Direct<\/a> and immediately found the same fan that I bought for eight bucks selling for $2.99, or four of them for nine dollars. A super-quiet case fan sells for eight bucks. Now I just need to figure out what else I “need” from Tiger Direct to make the shipping costs worthwhile….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago my computer started making all kinds of noises — grinding, vibrating, bad noises. I took the cover off and discovered, to my surprise, that instead of my hard disk going belly up, it was the fan. I pulled the fan out and took it down to the local computer parts store … Continue reading Noise!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/snKxs-noise","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}