{"id":158,"date":"2008-10-28T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-12-13T22:57:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T02:57:45","slug":"odd-lots-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&apos;ve posted a significant update of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copperwood.com\/carlandjerry.htm\">my                 Carl &amp; Jerry page<\/a>, with new material on John T. Frye,                 including the conclusion I&apos;ve drawn (with help from 1910, 1920,                 and 1930 census records provided by Bob Ballantine W8SU) that                 Bailey Frye was not John Frye&apos;s brother. Bob also sent out a scan                 of W9EGV&apos;s QSL card, worked up against a 50s cover (not sure precisely                 what issue) of <i>Boy&apos;s Life<\/i>. New details from newspaper clippings                 sent me by Michael Holley flesh out the man a little. He was quite                 a guy. Do take a look.<\/li>\n<li>Science is good at puncturing legends, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/oct\/27\/martin-luther-protestantism\">German                 researchers digging around in the former backyard of Martin Luther<\/a>                 have deflated the legend that Luther was a humble monk (and, by                 implication, starving) but was instead born to an upper-class                 family and became a prosperous man who weighed 23 stone, 8 pounds                 (330 pounds for us Yanks) and ate goose, young piglet, several                 kinds of fish, and (egad) robins. Nor did he pound his 95 theses                 to the door of the Wittenburg cathedral in a fury with nails,                 as legend holds, but instead used drawing pins\u2014what in America                 we call thumb tacks. Oh, the humanity&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>While researching Marian apparitions for a seminar I&apos;m teaching                 at our church in November, I ran across the <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicnotebook.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/apparitions-of-jesus-and-mary-reference.html\">Apparitions                 of Jesus and Mary Reference Chart<\/a>. It sounds silly, but trust                 me: The apparition curve has gone exponential in the last 30 years,                 and you can&apos;t tell the Marys without a program anymore.<\/li>\n<li>I&apos;m in the Chicago area for a few days, and found on my arrival                 that the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechoochoo.com\/index.html\">Choo-Choo                 Restaurant<\/a> in Des Plaines (just down the street and around                 the corner from our condo) is in danger of being razed to make                 room for a new police station. There&apos;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethechoochoo.com\/SaveTheChooChoo.com\/Message.html\">a                 Web site for gathering protest<\/a> and forwarding it to the City                 of Des Plaines, which apparently can either raze the Choo-Choo                 or the defunct Masonic temple across the street. I don&apos;t quite                 understand why that&apos;s a hard decision.<\/li>\n<li>Harry Helms sends word that <i>TV Guide<\/i>, which Rupert Murdoch                 bought ten years ago for three billion dollars, <a href=\"http:\/\/harryhelmsblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/how-to-turn-3-billion-into-1-in-ten.html\">has                 been sold for&#8230;a buck<\/a>. Boy, the magazine business is <i>not<\/i>                 what it used to be. (If it were, I&apos;d still be in it.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/news\/08\/10\/28\/0354203.shtml\">Slashdot                 reports a bit of useful black humor<\/a>, in that Codeweavers (makers                 of the Crossover product line) gave the Bush administration a                 challenge: Reduce the cost of gasoline in the Twin Cities below                 $2.79 a gallon, and they would give away their products for an                 entire day. Well, courtesy the recent financial meltdown (which                 was not caused exclusively or perhaps even primarily by the Bush                 administration, by the way) gas has gone south of $2.79, and while                 the Codeweavers site has been Slashdotted into paralysis, there                 is a facility online whereby the firm will email you an unlock                 code for something. I&apos;ve been meaning to try Crossover Linux for                 some time. Here&apos;s my chance, I guess. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradospringsgasprices.com\/\">gas                 in Colorado Springs is even cheaper than that<\/a>. Inc(Boggle);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;ve posted a significant update of my Carl &amp; Jerry page, with new material on John T. Frye, including the conclusion I&apos;ve drawn (with help from 1910, 1920, and 1930 census records provided by Bob Ballantine W8SU) that Bailey Frye was not John Frye&apos;s brother. Bob also sent out a scan of W9EGV&apos;s QSL card, [&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-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}