{"id":2662,"date":"2012-11-18T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2012-11-18T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:46:05","slug":"odd-lots-204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2662","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>From the Some-Things-Just-Sound-Right Department: &#8220;Glitzenstein&#8221; is German for &#8220;rhinestone.&#8221; It suggests an ironic horror novel in which a mad plastic surgeon stitches together an unreasonable facimile of Liberace from pieces of washed-up Vegas lounge singers.<\/li>\n<li>From the Words-I-Never-Heard-Before-But-Won-A-Word-Of-The-Year-Contest Department: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/generalnews\/news\/oxford-chooses-omnishambles-as-wordthe-year\/79088\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Omnishambles,&#8221;<\/a> which basically means, &#8220;big mess.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan O&#8217;Neal found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Kliban.gif\" target=\"_blank\">a much better link to the &#8220;impersonating marijuana&#8221; cartoon from Kliban<\/a> that I cited in my November 13th entry.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Cherepy sent word of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/product\/f086\/?cpg=cj&amp;ref=&amp;CJURL=&amp;CJID=1511450\" target=\"_blank\">a $29.95 steampunk thumb drive<\/a> that appeaars to be mass-produced and not a hand-made work of art.<\/li>\n<li>And while sniffing around the same site, I came upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/product\/e9b7\/\" target=\"_blank\">a steampunk telescope ring<\/a>. Oh&#8211;and a slightly less compact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/product\/ea3b\/\" target=\"_blank\">steampunk wrist monocular<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2012\/11\/11\/solar-activity-past-present-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">Good paper on historical solar activity<\/a> by Dr. Leif Svalgaard. If you want to work all continents on a Sixer, you might have to wait awhile. (I&#8217;m hoping to get some traction on my G28 this max&#8211;if we actually have a max.)<\/li>\n<li>We forget sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2012\/11\/attractive-unique-vintage-telephones.html\" target=\"_blank\">how diverse old telephones were<\/a>&#8211;because we (mostly) had to get them from the phone company. The others we mostly saw in spy movies.<\/li>\n<li>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/intoxicologist.net\/2010\/02\/three-o-bubble-vodka-bubbles-over-with-cocktails\/\" target=\"_blank\">bubble-gum flavored vodka<\/a>. Fair enough. Now, is there a wintergreen-flavored cordial of some kind? Or lavender?<\/li>\n<li>Carol&#8217;s sister chills room-temperature box sangria by throwing a few spoonfuls of frozen blueberries into it. Granted, you have to let the glass sit for a few minutes, but it&#8217;s <em>way<\/em> easier than slicing oranges.<\/li>\n<li>Some may argue that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioactiveorchestra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">allowing radioisotopes to perform music<\/a> isn&#8217;t exactly music, or if it is, we can definitely call it <em>very<\/em> heavy metal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criggo.com\/2012\/10\/how-about-some-wine-with-the-turkey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just what I want in my Thanksgiving wine<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Some-Things-Just-Sound-Right Department: &#8220;Glitzenstein&#8221; is German for &#8220;rhinestone.&#8221; It suggests an ironic horror novel in which a mad plastic surgeon stitches together an unreasonable facimile of Liberace from pieces of washed-up Vegas lounge singers. From the Words-I-Never-Heard-Before-But-Won-A-Word-Of-The-Year-Contest Department: &#8220;Omnishambles,&#8221; which basically means, &#8220;big mess.&#8221; Jonathan O&#8217;Neal found a much better link to the &#8220;impersonating [&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":[41,43,49,101],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-astronomy","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-steampunk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","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=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}