{"id":2688,"date":"2012-12-22T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2013-01-21T10:51:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:51:04","slug":"odd-lots-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I got FreePascal and Lazarus installed on my Raspberry Pi using apt-get. <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.freepascal.org\/Lazarus_on_Raspberry_Pi\" target=\"_blank\">Instructions here<\/a>. (It&#8217;s trivial.) Alas, it&#8217;s not the current release, but a chap has posted notes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellcomputing.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/lazarus-on-the-raspberry-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to install Subversion on the Pi and recompile Lazarus from source<\/a>. One caveat: The Pi has just barely enough memory to pull it off, and then only if X isn&#8217;t running.<\/li>\n<li>One interesting thing that I had not heard about and did not expect is that <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2012\/12\/raspberry-pi-now-has-an-app-store-and-yes-it-has-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Raspberry Pi has its own app store<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There is a Raspberry Pi magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themagpi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MagPi<\/a>. It&#8217;s a free download (either HTML or PDF) and from the couple of issues I looked at might be worth your time if you&#8217;re a Pi guy.<\/li>\n<li>One interesting part of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parts-people.com\/2012\/12\/20\/mobile-raspberry-pi-computer-build-your-own-portable-rpi-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Pi project<\/a> is the 3D-printed case. The other is hot-wiring a SATA SSD into a USB hub for additional storage beyond what you can put on an SD card.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of which: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2012\/12\/ssd-prices-are-low-and-theyll-get-lower\/\" target=\"_blank\">SSD prices are starting to go through the floor<\/a>. I just ordered one and am about to see what it can do on my primary machine.<\/li>\n<li>Ditto e-readers, apparently: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/12\/19\/kobo-mini\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Kobo Mini is now going for just $50<\/a>. I&#8217;m impressed by the fact that they make no attempt to lock users into their reader. Sideloading can be done via USB link; there&#8217;s no card slot. How good their store is I have no idea.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/0b7af978-493a-11e2-9225-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_blank\">There seems to be evidence that obesity is influenced by gut bacteria<\/a>. I would take this article a lot less seriously if if weren&#8217;t well-established that bacteria cause stomach ulcers. Obviously, it&#8217;s not the whole story, and more research is needed. My conviction that calories don&#8217;t count remains intact. It&#8217;s the <em>kind<\/em> of calories that matter, since everything depends on how the body processes them. (There are lots of calories in sawdust. Eat 3000 calories worth of sawdust a day and get fat? Try it and see!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitystores.com\/store\/art-image\/albert-einstein-scientist-humanitarian-mystic-1879-1955\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Lentz has drawn an icon of Albert Einstein<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitystores.com\/store\/art-image\/jrr-tolkien-1892-1973\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Tolkien<\/a>. Way cool. Now, can we have Origen too?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/corporate-intelligence\/2012\/11\/28\/the-k-cup-patent-is-dead-long-live-the-k-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\">The K-Cup coffee maker patents expired this past September<\/a>. We have a machine and it&#8217;s handy, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Berres-Brothers-Coffee-Roasters-Highlander\/dp\/B001AFBJF4\" target=\"_blank\">my #1 favorite coffee isn&#8217;t available in a cup<\/a>. Expect an explosion in K-Cup options come the new year.<\/li>\n<li>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovebacon.com\/fresh-bacon\/birthday-threats-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Please-Find-a-Proofreader-Right-Freaking-Now Department<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Wow. They gave an End of the World, and nobody came!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got FreePascal and Lazarus installed on my Raspberry Pi using apt-get. Instructions here. (It&#8217;s trivial.) Alas, it&#8217;s not the current release, but a chap has posted notes on how to install Subversion on the Pi and recompile Lazarus from source. One caveat: The Pi has just barely enough memory to pull it off, and [&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":[37,15,39,43,128],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-food","tag-hardware","tag-health","tag-humor","tag-rpi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","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=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}