{"id":1180,"date":"2011-05-01T14:18:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T22:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2011-05-01T14:18:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T22:18:57","slug":"ramblings-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/ramblings-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramblings VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have hit another of those lengthy posting lags while the world gets in the way. \u00c2\u00a0Ramblings time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Been digging the new <a title=\"Back To The Future - The Game\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telltalegames.com\/bttf\">Back To The Future Game<\/a> from Telltale. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s essentially BTTF IV, starting off 6 months after the trilogy ends in 1986 and has Marty bouncing back and forth between 1931 and the present interacting with a teenage Doc. \u00c2\u00a0Right now I&#8217;m midway through episode 4 out of 5. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s probably worthy of a full post once the whole thing is done.<\/li>\n<li>Discovered yet another Ziggy iPhone app. \u00c2\u00a0This one&#8217;s called <a title=\"App Store - Ziggy's Time Traveler Emergency Reference\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ziggys-time-traveler-emergency\/id421691157?mt=8\">Ziggy&#8217;s Time Traveler Emergency Reference<\/a> and is basically a QL skinned offline Wikipedia viewer. \u00c2\u00a0Pretty much right along the lines of the real Ziggy, though it won&#8217;t tell you when history changes via an edit to the wiki&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The Beastie Boys short film <em><a title=\"Fight For Your Right Revisited\" href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2011\/04\/watch-beastie-boys-fight-for-your-right-revisted\/\">Fight For Your Right Revisited<\/a><\/em> features an unexpectedly awesome time travel twist, complete with BTTF DeLorean cameo.<\/li>\n<li>Been so busy I realize I wrote but forgot to post my annual year-end music best of list. \u00c2\u00a0Wait, a minute, I got all the time I want! I got a time machine! \u00c2\u00a0I could just <a title=\"Of The Year - 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=1096\">go back early and post it&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have hit another of those lengthy posting lags while the world gets in the way. \u00c2\u00a0Ramblings time: Been digging the new Back To The Future Game from Telltale. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s essentially BTTF IV, starting off 6 months after the trilogy ends in 1986 and has Marty bouncing back and forth between 1931 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,16,4],"tags":[31,5],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-debris","category-music","category-time-travel","tag-back-to-the-future","tag-quantum-leap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-j2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":814,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/ziggy-for-iphone\/","url_meta":{"origin":1180,"position":0},"title":"Ziggy for iPhone","author":"LBDG","date":"November 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I knew it was only a matter of time. 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