{"id":702,"date":"2009-02-27T08:15:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T08:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2009\/02\/27\/in_which_i_havent_lost_my_touch\/"},"modified":"2010-12-24T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T10:23:45","slug":"in_which_i_havent_lost_my_touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2009\/02\/27\/in_which_i_havent_lost_my_touch\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I haven&#8217;t lost my touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness for synthetic rubber. (And yes, it&#8217;s Friday in many parts of the world.)<\/p>\n<p>\nMy iPod Shuffle ran out of juice yesterday just as the deepest, darkest, most tedious phase of cell culture was about to commence. And it was then I made the happy discovery that the iPhone touch screen still functions with a nitrile-clad finger:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2009\/02\/GloveTing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2009\/02\/GloveTing.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GloveTing\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2009\/02\/GloveTing.jpg 600w, https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2009\/02\/GloveTing-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThis was by no means a given. During the recent cold snap, I&#8217;d found that it was impossible to operate an iPhone wearing woolly gloves. Hence, I encouraged a little snag that appeared in the right index finger to develop into a full-fledged hole:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/images\/Hole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve since experimented with other objects and textures, and it&#8217;s amazing how they&#8217;ve managed to design the iPhone&#8217;s screen so that it is responsive only to the touch of humans.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness for synthetic rubber. (And yes, it&#8217;s Friday in many parts of the world.) My iPod Shuffle ran out of juice yesterday just as the deepest, darkest, most tedious phase of cell culture was about to commence. And it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2009\/02\/27\/in_which_i_havent_lost_my_touch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}