{"id":2678,"date":"2012-12-11T17:23:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2012-12-11T17:23:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T00:23:47","slug":"odd-lots-206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>32 years ago today, Darkel&#8217;s Lucky Guess&#8211;known to more than a few of you as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/MrByteBegging1983.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Byte<\/a>&#8211;came into our world, and eight weeks later Carol and I took home our very first bichon puppy. Although not show quality, Mr. Byte was a <em>spectacular<\/em> dog, and even seventeen years after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/byteobit.htm\" target=\"_blank\">his passing<\/a> we miss him terribly.<\/li>\n<li>A study at Michigan State shows <a href=\"http:\/\/research.msu.edu\/stories\/multiple-media-use-tied-depression-anxiety\" target=\"_blank\">a strong correlation between use of multiple forms of media at once&#8211;e.g, watching TV while surfing the Web&#8211;and depression<\/a>. We don&#8217;t know if multitasking causes depression, or if depressed people multitask to distract themselves, but simply establishing the correlation is a good first step.<\/li>\n<li>Now this is nothing less than brilliant: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2012\/12\/willit3dprint\/\" target=\"_blank\">an app that examines a design destined for 3D printing and lets you know whether it will print well, or at all<\/a>. 3D typos cost money, and it&#8217;s not always obvious looking at a design where a typo lies, or how serious it might be.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and there&#8217;s a browser-based CAD system that was created with 3D printing in mind: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinkercad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TinkerCAD<\/a>. Have not used it and generally don&#8217;t like browser-based software (what if I develop skills with it and then it goes away?) but it&#8217;s a niche that had to be filled.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/cs\/Satellite\/GovHickenlooper\/CBON\/1251634887823\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has just signed the state constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana<\/a>. As long as you&#8217;re not in a public place, using it is now legal under state law&#8211;which is, pardon the expression, mind-blowing.<\/li>\n<li>Only slightly less mind-blowing was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/obamas-pot-problem-20121207\" target=\"_blank\">the savaging that Rolling Stone gave Obama for not jerking the leash on the DEA<\/a>. Wow.<\/li>\n<li>If the elderly&#8211;who have nothing if not life experience&#8211;are peculiarly vulnerable to scammers, it may be due to the failing of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/12\/why-old-people-get-scammed.html?ref=hp\" target=\"_blank\">a region of the brain that acts as a &#8220;crook detector.&#8221;<\/a> I agree: smug, smirky mouths are not the signs of integrity. Nor is the desire to run for office.<\/li>\n<li>Pete Albrecht sent me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localharvest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">a search site for locally grown food and farmers&#8217; markets<\/a>. We buy local when it&#8217;s possible (though we don&#8217;t make a fetish of it) and things like this can only make it more possible.<\/li>\n<li>Line up the cover spines on <em>Wired<\/em>&#8216;s 20th year, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2012\/11\/thats-our-spinal-answer\/\" target=\"_blank\">read the secret code<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org\/Lazarus_1.0_fixes_branch#Fixes_for_1.0.4_.28Merged.29\" target=\"_blank\">Lazarus 1.0.4 is out<\/a>. It&#8217;s a bug-fix release, but bug fixes are good to have. I&#8217;ve already been messing with it, and I&#8217;m starting to think the product has really quite sincerely arrived. <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/lazarus\/files\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get it here<\/a>. Many components and demos available <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/lazarus-ccr\/files\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>32 years ago today, Darkel&#8217;s Lucky Guess&#8211;known to more than a few of you as Mr. Byte&#8211;came into our world, and eight weeks later Carol and I took home our very first bichon puppy. Although not show quality, Mr. Byte was a spectacular dog, and even seventeen years after his passing we miss him terribly. 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