{"id":2927,"date":"2013-07-13T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2013-07-13T13:29:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T19:29:01","slug":"odd-lots-233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2927","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2013\/07\/11\/length-of-day-governed-by-earths-core-processes\/\" target=\"_blank\">The length of the Earth&#8217;s day varies more than I would guess<\/a>, and the cause seems to be a certain amount of slosh in our molten core.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2013\/07\/11\/pcworld-exits-print-and-the-era-of-computer-magazines-ends\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PC World<\/em> is shutting down its print edition<\/a>. I still have early copies of both <em>PC World<\/em> and <em>PC Magazine<\/em> in boxes, including issues from those heady days when the PC universe was exploding like a supernova and the magazines could be an inch thick and heavier than some small dogs. If I could still make money in magazines I&#8217;d still be in magazines making money, but that train has left the station, the station has been razed, and the tracks sold for scrap.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/12\/asiana-pilots-fake-names-racist_n_3588569.html\" target=\"_blank\">I smell careers burning<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Which might be one reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/10\/tribune-plans-to-split-in_n_3572260.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Chicago Tribune&#8217;s owners are doing this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And yet another reason (among many) for <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2013\/07\/11\/pew-poll-americans-hate-journalists-even-more-than-they-did-four-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On a whim I went out and checked the Adobe CS2 download link <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5973730\/grab-photoshop-and-cs2-for-absolutely-free-right-here\" target=\"_blank\">that got so much attention this past January<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/downloads\/cs2_downloads\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gone<\/a>. I guess they calculated that anybody who was entitled to it already had it, and all the rest were pirates. I wonder if they understood that genii don&#8217;t return to their bottles once let loose.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/12-cool-pools-you-wish-you-were-swimming-in-now-747594591\" target=\"_blank\">How about some extreme swimming pools?<\/a> Damn. I&#8217;d just like to have a really boring swimming pool right now.<\/li>\n<li>Or maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/9-vintage-vending-machines-from-a-time-when-theyd-sell-734051398\" target=\"_blank\">nine peculiar (old) vending machines<\/a>. Read the comments, which contain more cool vending machine links. I saw beer vending machines on Japanese streets when I visited Tokyo in 1981. It shouldn&#8217;t be too long before <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Espresso_Book_Machine\" target=\"_blank\">a modern descendant of the Book-O-Matic<\/a> actually prints and binds your book from scratch, while you watch. Alas, it will cost more than a quarter.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of descendants: <a href=\"http:\/\/grammarist.com\/usage\/descendant-descendent\/\" target=\"_blank\">I knew this<\/a>. Did you?<\/li>\n<li>Bill Higgins sent a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/panther1944.de\/en\/sdkfz-171-pzkpfwg-panther\/panther-manuals\/panther-fibel.html\" target=\"_blank\">some sort of German WWII tank training manual<\/a>, written in German rhyme and illustrated in a very surreal fashion, including God carrying a tank on one shoulder and a chubby redheaded Aryan angel in leather boots, holding a cannon rammer. The Jaegermeister stag-and-cross is there too, which might explain a few things. Yet another reason I should have taken German in high school.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Jaegermeister: I asked my nephew Matt what it tastes like. His answer: &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to know.&#8221; When pressed, he added, &#8220;Malort.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/drink\/nation\/the-many-faces-of-malort\" target=\"_blank\">Only a little research<\/a> confirmed that, yes, I really don&#8217;t want to know.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovebacon.com\/fresh-bacon\/which-restaurant.html\" target=\"_blank\">Choice is always good<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr id=\"hr\"\/>\n<p>UPDATE: A little research on the Panther Primer shows that the figure I thought was God is St. Christopher; the angel in red braids is St. Barbara, and the guy chasing the buzzard is St. Hubert, who was a master hunter&#8230;a Jaegermeister. Siegfried is in there too, as are some Classical Greek figures. German tank crews must have been a pretty educated bunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The length of the Earth&#8217;s day varies more than I would guess, and the cause seems to be a certain amount of slosh in our molten core. PC World is shutting down its print edition. 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