{"id":1260,"date":"2012-02-07T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2012-02-07T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T16:31:28","slug":"important-bus-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2012\/02\/07\/important-bus-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Bus Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is going to add minutes to my life \u2013 every time I take the bus. And I have Guardian<\/em> columnist Tim Dowling’s truculent teenage kids to thank for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nDisdaining the sorry business of relying on a published timetable and standing frigidly at the bus-stop, Dowling’s offspring, with preternatural anticipation of how the world is supposed to work, informed his father (and this reader) about the Next Bus London<\/em> app he had on his smartphone.<\/p>\n

The what?<\/p>\n

A quick Google search later and I realised there is an abundance of these apps (for the iPhone at any rate). Cheapskate that I am I demurred on the \u00a31.99 price tag for Next Bus London<\/em> and opted instead for BusMapper<\/em>, which is free. Much more my price range.<\/p>\n

And two days later we are very happy together. The app knows where I am, knows where the nearest bus stops are and, best of all, knows when the buses are going to show up. I don’t know how it works, GPS or some such nonsense. I don’t care.<\/p>\n

But I do care that it works<\/em>. My morning coffee can be ever so slightly more leisurely because there is less uncertainty in my life. This is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is going to add minutes to my life \u2013 every time I take the bus. And I have Guardian columnist Tim Dowling’s truculent teenage kids to thank for it. Disdaining the sorry business of relying on a published timetable … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,107],"tags":[154,153,155],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-scientific-life","tag-bus","tag-london","tag-timetable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}