{"id":448,"date":"2006-09-20T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T17:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2006-09-20T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T17:40:24","slug":"programmable-soda-dont-make-people-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/20\/programmable-soda-dont-make-people-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmable Soda &#8211; don&#039;t make people think."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/gadgets\/programmable-soda-bottle-have-it-your-way-201588.php\">this article<\/a> about a Massachusetts company who&#8217;s come up with the idea of a soda bottle that&#8217;s programmable.  For example, if you wanted some cherry, and some lime, you could push some buttons and add flavors as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>I think I dislike this idea for the same reason that I&#8217;m not enamoured with those restaurants where you pick your ingredients and they cook it for you.  I&#8217;m not a cook.  I know what I like to eat, but I don&#8217;t know how to make it.  I don&#8217;t know what flavors go well together in various ratios.  I go to a restaurant to have a cook do that work for me.  I buy soda knowing that a bazillion people already taste-tested this thing, and it was good tasting enough that a company decided to spend a bunch of money putting it on the market.  Once I find out I like it, I can buy it again and it will taste the exact same &#8211; every time.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there is  someone who wants a soda with 3 squirts of cherry, one lemon, a hint of vanilla, and a half squeeze of lime.  That reminds me of that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianregan.com\/\">Brian Regan<\/a> bit about how donut places have this donut with chocoloate all over the top, but sprinkles only on half of it.  As if there&#8217;s someone out there who&#8217;s so particular about their donut topping that they need the ingredients in those exact amounts.  It&#8217;s called the &#8220;Sprink Smidge for Lunatics.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo posted this article about a Massachusetts company who&#8217;s come up with the idea of a soda bottle that&#8217;s programmable. For example, if you wanted some cherry, and some lime, you could push some buttons and add flavors as necessary. I think I dislike this idea for the same reason that I&#8217;m not enamoured with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-7e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}