{"id":822,"date":"2009-07-11T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:13:50","slug":"usb-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/usb-mario\/","title":{"rendered":"USB Mario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was right, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131211075527\/http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/node\/497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Internet is just a bunch of tubes<\/a> and finally, the plumber we need to fix the tubes is here!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeky-gadgets.com\/4gb-mario-usb-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110668\" title=\"4 GB Mario USB drive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/4gb-mario-usb-drive.jpg?resize=400%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4 GB Mario USB drive\" width=\"400\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/4gb-mario-usb-drive.jpg?w=575&amp;ssl=1 575w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/4gb-mario-usb-drive.jpg?resize=75%2C68&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/4gb-mario-usb-drive.jpg?resize=150%2C136&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This handcrafted <a title=\"www.nintendo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/?country=US&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nintendo<\/a> (<a title=\"TYO : 7978\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/quote?ticker=7974:JP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7978) <\/a>hero, stores 4GB of USB memory inside Mario sitting atop one of <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100406033616\/http:\/\/www.nintendo.com:80\/wii\/virtualconsole\/games\/detail\/3AhiHlPhEtLc5rGACE1dxueM0y5QDqCZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mario Bros<\/a>. famous question boxes. You can also store your data with Luigi, Koopa, a Gooba, or a shroom (when not sold out). Mario and is buddies are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Etsy<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=7534681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sgedra<\/a> but you will have to wait since they are currently sold out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario now has a USB connection to Alaska Senator Ted Stevens Internet of tubes and finally, the plumber we need to fix the tubes is here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[3216,47,22,1744,1745,3369,63],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-3216","tag-fun","tag-hardware","tag-mario-bros","tag-nintendo","tag-ted-stevens","tag-usb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132761,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/132761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}