{"id":64,"date":"2008-02-02T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/shed\/2008\/01\/23\/the-random-excuse-generator-firing-on-all-three-cylinders\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T08:35:08","slug":"the-random-excuse-generator-firing-on-all-three-cylinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2008\/02\/02\/the-random-excuse-generator-firing-on-all-three-cylinders\/","title":{"rendered":"The Random Excuse Generator &#8211; firing on all three cylinders."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Henry Hoke\u2019s Random Excuse Generator as it was rediscovered\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/regpixmainweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/regpixmainweb.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Hoke\u2019s Random Excuse Generator as it was rediscovered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Chris Block and I recently completed a trial run of the reconstructed Random Excuse Generator &#8211; the little known masterwork of mechanical genius Henry Hoke.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great occasion: achieving a sort of closure to many years of hard work by Dr Block (who is the Technical Director here at the Insitute) and I.<\/p>\n<p>A film crew was present to record the final triumphant moments and it is viewable on Youtube at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F_CvIg_z1rM\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F_CvIg_z1rM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are endeavouring to present the REG at a number of public events in the upcoming year.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F_CvIg_z1rM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F_CvIg_z1rM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Chris Block and I recently completed a trial run of the reconstructed Random Excuse Generator &#8211; the little known masterwork of mechanical genius Henry Hoke. It was a great occasion: achieving a sort of closure to many years of hard work by Dr Block (who is the Technical Director here at the Insitute) and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2008\/02\/02\/the-random-excuse-generator-firing-on-all-three-cylinders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Random Excuse Generator &#8211; firing on all three cylinders.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}