{"id":2629,"date":"2012-09-25T20:48:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2012-09-25T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T03:03:01","slug":"odd-lots-201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The only thing harder than selling a novel is finishing one.<\/li>\n<li>From Chris Gerrib comes a link to Smithsonian&#8217;s marvelous tale of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/The-Great-New-England-Vampire-Panic-169791986.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Great New England Vampire Panic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>At least &#8220;vampire&#8221; isn&#8217;t a funny word. I can&#8217;t say &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monstropedia.org\/index.php?title=Tatzelwurm\" target=\"_blank\">tatzelwurm<\/a>&#8221; without giggling.<\/li>\n<li>From the Things-I-Didn&#8217;t-Know-Until-Yesterday Department: The &#8220;dead men&#8221; in that fine old drinking song &#8220;Down Among the Dead Men&#8221; are empty bottles, generally set on the floor under the tables.<\/li>\n<li>From ditto: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/09\/arsenic-and-rice-yes-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rice is an arsenic magnet<\/a>. Eat with care.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.freepascal.org\/Lazarus_Application_Gallery#Ubuntu_Control_Center\" target=\"_blank\">a gallery of applications and utilities written in Lazarus<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The original 6-CD changer stereo in my 2001 Toyota 4Runner has failed, after working flawlessly since April 2001. Any suggestions as to a replacement? The car&#8217;s great. But I won&#8217;t drive very happily without music.<\/li>\n<li>As we gradually replace hundreds of millions of print books with ebooks, what will happen to our print books? Well, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksbythefoot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">some of them may become color-coordinated accessories<\/a> for people who don&#8217;t read. (Thanks to Esther Schindler for the link.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2012\/09\/25\/bacon-shortage-pigs.html\" target=\"_blank\">The price of bacon is about to skyrocket<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/2012\/9\/25\/beer-in-the-u-s-is-cheaper-than-anywhere-else-in-the-world--2\" target=\"_blank\">Americans enjoy the cheapest beer on Earth<\/a>. Why do I always back the wrong horse?<\/li>\n<li>I guess compensating for a bacon shortage may be <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/2012_tornadoes_spc.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">the striking tornado shortage<\/a> going on right now.<\/li>\n<li>Be careful what you try to invent. <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5944474\/12-deadly-inventions-that-killed-their-creators\" target=\"_blank\">You might succeed. More or less<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing harder than selling a novel is finishing one. From Chris Gerrib comes a link to Smithsonian&#8217;s marvelous tale of The Great New England Vampire Panic. At least &#8220;vampire&#8221; isn&#8217;t a funny word. I can&#8217;t say &#8220;tatzelwurm&#8221; without giggling. From the Things-I-Didn&#8217;t-Know-Until-Yesterday Department: The &#8220;dead men&#8221; in that fine old drinking song &#8220;Down [&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":[33,37,44,49,31,20],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-books","tag-food","tag-history","tag-music","tag-weather","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","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=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}