{"id":1693,"date":"2011-03-16T20:31:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T02:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2011-03-16T20:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T02:31:44","slug":"odd-lots-147","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A 20-year study does suggest that <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/#!longevity\/5781422\" target=\"_blank\">personality affects longevity<\/a>, though interpreting the results sounds tricky. The question arises whether personality can be changed, and if not, well, longevity is (as I&#8217;ve long suspected) almost entirely in the genes. (Thanks to Frank Glover for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>I had never heard of Kindle novelist Amanda Hocking until a week or two ago, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novelr.com\/2011\/02\/27\/rich-indie-writer\" target=\"_blank\">she&#8217;s obviously doing something right<\/a>. What I think she may be doing right is accruing fans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2008\/03\/1000_true_fans.php\" target=\"_blank\">as Kevin Kelly suggested back in 2008<\/a>. Get to 1000 fans, and you can make a living. (She clearly has more than 1000 fans.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20110316-711033.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Wi-Fi only Xoom will go on sale at the end of March at a $599 price point<\/a>. I&#8217;m still waiting for them to make the SD card slot work, but it&#8217;s nice to see some flexibility in other areas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/digitalcameras\/lexar-releases-the-first-128gb-sdxc-memory-cards\/4830\" target=\"_blank\">A 128GB SDXC card<\/a> was inevitable (and still expensive&#8211;though check back in an hour or so) but I wonder what devices can actually use it. Most of the &#8220;barrier&#8221; issues are with Windows; Linux does not differentiate between SDHC and SDXC cards as long as they have compatible filesystems.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not blogs that have debased American politics. It&#8217;s email&#8211;email sent to you by your aunt, who tells you to forward it to everyone in your address book. We laugh, but <a href=\"http:\/\/researchnews.osu.edu\/archive\/polirumor.htm\" target=\"_blank\">new research suggests that the strategy works<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Digging around in the shop the other night I found an envelope of crystal pairs for my old Standard 2M HT, which I bought in 1976. That was a great radio, built like a brick, and I&#8217;m looking to get another one. I&#8217;m watching eBay, but if you have one in the pile somewhere you might part with, I&#8217;m interested.<\/li>\n<li>OMG! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utzsnacks.com\/products\/grandmachips.html\" target=\"_blank\">There are still potato chips fried in lard!<\/a> Glorioski!<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re finally starting to admit it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1256509\/Eating-fruit-make-fat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fruit will make you fat<\/a>. I ration fruit to three or four servings a week. Fruit is candy and almost entirely sugar, much of it fructose, which basically goes straight to your gut.<\/li>\n<li>And while we&#8217;re talking food, consider: If a dozen eggs cost about $2 where you live (as they do here, sometimes cheaper) that means that two eggs plus a little butter to fry them in will set you back about 35 cents. That&#8217;s cheap calories, and good ones.<\/li>\n<li>While listening to the 1968 Association song &#8220;Six Man Band&#8221; the other day, a line in the lyrics caught my attention: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got the seventeen jewels that dictate the rules&#8230;&#8221; How many people under the age of 25 or so have any idea what this refers to?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year study does suggest that personality affects longevity, though interpreting the results sounds tricky. The question arises whether personality can be changed, and if not, well, longevity is (as I&#8217;ve long suspected) almost entirely in the genes. (Thanks to Frank Glover for the link.) 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