{"id":617,"date":"2008-10-07T19:09:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T02:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/further-adventures-in-geeky-plates\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T19:09:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T02:09:41","slug":"further-adventures-in-geeky-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/further-adventures-in-geeky-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Adventures In Geeky Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another geeky license plate observed here in the San Francisco bay area: &#8216;DMACH5&#8217;. The best I can think of is direct memory access (DMA) channel #5. Or perhaps DMA controller H5. I can&#8217;t possibly come up with any kind of cosmic, or technological significance for DMA channel 5. But someone thought it was unique enough to slap on his Lexus.<\/p>\n<p>Then I saw &#8216;EFG FTW&#8217;. At first I thought the driver was just enthusiastic about medical equipment. But I realized I was thinking of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electrocardiogram\">EKG<\/a>. My best guess is that this driver is, or was, a member of a pro gaming group named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EFGaming\">EFGaming<\/a> that was apparently based in the area. That makes more sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another geeky license plate observed here in the San Francisco bay area: &#8216;DMACH5&#8217;. The best I can think of is direct memory access (DMA) channel #5. Or perhaps DMA controller H5. I can&#8217;t possibly come up with any kind of cosmic, or technological significance for DMA channel 5. But someone thought it was unique enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}