{"id":25973,"date":"2007-07-17T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/07\/17\/not-my-finest-hour-driving-a-manual-transmission\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T10:00:01","slug":"not-my-finest-hour-driving-a-manual-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070717-01\/?p=25973","title":{"rendered":"Not my finest hour: Driving a manual transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/saraford\/\"> Sara Ford<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/saraford\/archive\/2007\/05\/24\/not-broken-after-all.aspx\"> messed up her leg<\/a> last month; you can see her on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/klevy\/archive\/2007\/06\/07\/Sara-Ford-commands-ScooterCam_2D00_1-at-TechEd07.aspx\"> ScooterCam-1<\/a> at TechEd 2007. The best part of the name ScooterCam-1 isn&#8217;t the ScooterCam; it&#8217;s the&nbsp;1. That just gives it that extra little kitchy space technology feel that turns a good name into a great name.\n Anyway, she asked around if somebody with a car with an automatic transmission would be willing to swap with her manual transmission car until her leg got better. To me, driving a stick shift is like changing a flat tire: It&#8217;s something that everybody should know how to do, but it&#8217;s not something that anybody is expected to enjoy doing. I offered my car and (long boring part of story deleted) we met at her place and exchanged keys. I got into her car, backed out of the parking space, and&#8230; stalled right in front of her.<\/p>\n<p> Great job there. I really know how to instill confidence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Ford messed up her leg last month; you can see her on ScooterCam-1 at TechEd 2007. The best part of the name ScooterCam-1 isn&#8217;t the ScooterCam; it&#8217;s the&nbsp;1. That just gives it that extra little kitchy space technology feel that turns a good name into a great name. Anyway, she asked around if somebody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-25973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Sara Ford messed up her leg last month; you can see her on ScooterCam-1 at TechEd 2007. The best part of the name ScooterCam-1 isn&#8217;t the ScooterCam; it&#8217;s the&nbsp;1. That just gives it that extra little kitchy space technology feel that turns a good name into a great name. Anyway, she asked around if somebody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}