{"id":1133,"date":"2010-02-17T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:36:43","slug":"odd-lots-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Several people have asked why I didn&#8217;t post any photos from the big 4-day dog show in Denver, and I must admit (with profound annoyance) that my camera bag vanished sometime on Monday, and both of my digital cameras were in it. That&#8217;s a Canon G10 and a Nikon CoolPix S630, and with the biggish SD cards I put in them, it&#8217;s close to a $1000 loss. Neither the hotel nor the National Western Complex recovered the bag, so I can only assume it was stolen during the show, and with it went all the photos we took through Sunday night.<\/li>\n<li>Slashdot reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/02\/17\/141228\/Rogue-PDFs-Behind-80-of-Exploits-In-Q4-09?art_pos=2\">80% of all software exploits during the fourth quarter of 2009 were malicious PDF documents<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been a Foxit user for some time, but as Foxit becomes more popular, the bad guys will begin exploiting its flaws as well. (There is evidence that <a href=\"http:\/\/secunia.com\/advisories\/34036\/\">this has already happened<\/a>.) It may be time to test software like <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.gnome.org\/evince\/\">Evince<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kowalczyk.info\/software\/sumatrapdf\/index.html\">Sumatra<\/a>, both of which are available for Linux and Windows.<\/li>\n<li>As I write this, you have eight hours to bid on the Compaq II machine that Anders Hejlsberg used to develop Turbo Pascal 4.0. The proceeds from the auction go to <a href=\"http:\/\/clintonbushhaitifund.org\/\">the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund<\/a>. It&#8217;s one of those green-screen luggable that I always admired, but bidding is currently at $2025, yikes. (Thanks to the many who pointed this out, with Larry O&#8217;Brien being the first.)<\/li>\n<li>Something confirming a phenomenon that I&#8217;ve noticed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2244249\/\">Food expiration dates are conservative<\/a>, and most food is good for a reasonable period after they supposedly time out. Still, after expiry, your nose is your stomach&#8217;s best friend.<\/li>\n<li>For whatever it&#8217;s worth, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2010\/02\/all-time-inflation-adjusted-movie-box.html\">a list of the top-grossing movies of all time<\/a>, with inflation-adjusted values. (Thanks to Frank Glover for the link.) Unsurprisingly, <em>Gone With the Wind<\/em> still beats all comers with a mind-boggling 1.5 billion dollars, the though the original <em>Star Wars<\/em> is right behind it at $1.3B. What&#8217;s worth noting is that all but six films in the top 14 were either Disney animation or special-effects extravaganzas. (It&#8217;s all but five if you think the opticals in <em>The Ten Commandments<\/em> were significant, as I do.) Lesson: We don&#8217;t go to the movies to watch unpleasant people screaming at one another.<\/li>\n<li>Also from Frank comes a pointer to a short item suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5395769\/why-do-humans-kiss-to-share-our-germs\">we kiss to enforce reproductive monogamy by developing immunities to one another&#8217;s specific viruses<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure I buy it either, but evolution has done far weirder things than this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have asked why I didn&#8217;t post any photos from the big 4-day dog show in Denver, and I must admit (with profound annoyance) that my camera bag vanished sometime on Monday, and both of my digital cameras were in it. That&#8217;s a Canon G10 and a Nikon CoolPix S630, and with the biggish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[37,39,36,90,14],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-food","tag-health","tag-malware","tag-pascal","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}