{"id":79,"date":"2003-02-01T00:54:04","date_gmt":"2003-01-31T23:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2007-09-03T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:43:08","slug":"pen-fu-aka-pen-spinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/02\/pen-fu-aka-pen-spinning\/","title":{"rendered":"Pen-Fu (aka Pen-spinning)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/penSpinning.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nAs a computer programmer, with my hands at a keyboard for up-to 12 hours a day, I practice Pen-Fu to exercise my fingers and prevent <acronym title=\"Repeatative Strain Injury\">RSI<\/acronym>.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Pen-Fu is like Kung-Fu but with pens rather than combat :-). Think of Boris, the computer hacker in 007 Goldeneye&#8230; He was a novice pen ninja. Check out <a class=\"outside\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pentrix.com\/\">www.pentrix.com<\/a> and <a class=\"outside\" href=\"http:\/\/www.superhandz.com\">www.superhandz.com<\/a> to see some real stationary samurais. It is an addictive trick to pick up and can be annoying as hell to anyone who sits next to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a computer programmer, with my hands at a keyboard for up-to 12 hours a day, I practice Pen-Fu to exercise my fingers and prevent RSI. Pen-Fu is like Kung-Fu but with pens rather than combat :-). Think of Boris, the computer hacker in 007 Goldeneye&#8230; He was a novice pen ninja. Check out www.pentrix.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}