{"id":118,"date":"2008-11-28T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-12-13T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T02:35:15","slug":"odd-lots-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/bichongroup.jpg\" height=\"386\" width=\"499\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A couple of people wrote to ask for a photo of Jackie, the gawky,                  lovable 26-pound bichon I visited yesterday. See above, at the                  right end of the group. (Compare the size of Jackie&apos;s head to                  that of 10-pound Aero standing next to him.) Jackie is also the                  only bichon I have ever seen who routinely hangs his tongue out                  of his mouth.<\/li>\n<li>I have wondered, at times, why today should be called &#8220;Black                  Friday.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/29\/business\/29walmart.html?em\">Now                  I know<\/a>. Egad. (Remind me to stay the hell out of Nassau County.)                  Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/28\/business\/28govtest.html?em\">This                  is an important article<\/a> if you now have or expect to develop                  hypertension. Solid studies appear to indicate that nothing works                  quite as well as ancient, dirt-cheap diurectics.<\/li>\n<li>I happen to believe that if we do not convert essentially all                  our coal-fired power plants to nuclear (with solar and wind to                  fill in the gaps) <i>nothing else we do matters at all<\/i> in                  preventing climate change. Small nuclear reactors are one solution                  to a lot of the rational objections to nuclear energy and here&apos;s                  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Small_nuclear_power_reactors\">the                  best intro I&apos;ve seen to the topic<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>I like this discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/hairball-science.html\">the                  possibility of re-creating the woolly mammoth from DNA<\/a> scavenged                  from long-frozen mammoth hair. (I did not know that there was                  viable DNA in hair.) If Russia did the heavy lifting here and                  established a Pleistocene Park in Siberia, they could reap billions                  in ecotourism dollars. First mammoths, then mastodons, then glyptodonts,                  then&#8230;dare we hope&#8230;giant beaver?<\/li>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2205310\/\">how would the                  ethics sort out<\/a> if we tried reassembling the DNA of a Neanderthal                  and using a chimpanzee or bonobo as a host species rather than                  a human? Saletan&apos;s good and I read him religiously, but this is                  a subject he could have gone <i>much<\/i> deeper on.<\/li>\n<li>While we&apos;re dithering about re-creating the woolly mammoth or                  Neanderthal humans, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7741449.stm\">those                  crafty Brits have re-created a full-size and completely accurate                  replica<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a1steam.com\/\">a long-extinct                  steam locomotive<\/a>, of which no significant parts (not even                  hair) had survived. (Thanks to Jim Strickland for the links.)<\/li>\n<li>Pete Albrecht pointed out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136151&amp;nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL112808&amp;cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL112808-_-HardDrives-_-L1A-_-22136151\">NewEgg                  is now selling 1TB hard drives for under $100<\/a>. Is there any                  common use of that much storage other than movie rips?<\/li>\n<li>Also from Pete is a pointer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmerbolt.com\/\">Palmer                  Bolt<\/a>, a source he recently discovered for odd size nuts, bolts,                  and other small hardware.<\/li>\n<li>I sorted my sock drawer today. I really did. I am not being                  funny or in any way metaphorical. It&apos;s just that it&apos;s almost Christmas                  (when New Socks Happen) and my habit of throwing away individual                  socks with holes in them had made matched pairs a little scarce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of people wrote to ask for a photo of Jackie, the gawky, lovable 26-pound bichon I visited yesterday. See above, at the right end of the group. (Compare the size of Jackie&apos;s head to that of 10-pound Aero standing next to him.) Jackie is also the only bichon I have ever seen who [&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":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","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=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}