{"id":2932,"date":"2013-07-22T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2013-07-22T11:48:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T17:48:44","slug":"odd-lots-234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It would be a little embarrassing to the US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/across-the-universe\/2013\/jul\/17\/sabre-rocket-engine-reaction-skylon\" target=\"_blank\">if Britain beat us<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantastic-plastic.com\/PAN AM SPACE CLIPPER PAGE.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the Pan Am Clipper<\/a>, but by God, I would stand with Arthur C. Clarke and the Queen and cheer if they do.<\/li>\n<li>Satire is the soul of civilization: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/colorado-town-wants-to-issue-drone-hunting-permits-824802409\" target=\"_blank\">A Colorado town wants to issue drone-hunting permits<\/a>. All methods allowed&#8230;and no bag limits!<\/li>\n<li>In 1890, England had Eiffel Tower envy. So&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2012\/07\/16\/catalogue-of-the-68-competitive-designs-for-the-great-tower-for-london-1890\/\" target=\"_blank\">let&#8217;s have a contest!<\/a> The winner was never finished, and was dynamited and sold for scrap in 1904.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/07\/omg-kids-these-days-digital-tools-dont-make-students-better-writers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sorry, guys<\/a>. You learn how to be a writer by&#8230;writing. And reading. And thinking critically about your own writing&#8230;along with everything else in the universe. Worked for me.<\/li>\n<li>I drank wine out of a Dixie cup once, and I didn&#8217;t explode or turn green. However, if you want to learn to be imbibably correct, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/which-glass-to-use-for-which-drink-and-why-837812622\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a good place to start<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-06-06\/wine-in-a-can-wants-to-be-the-new-wine-in-a-box\" target=\"_blank\">canned wine seems to be making a comeback<\/a>. One of the first wines I ever drank as a legal adult (summer 1973) was white zinfandel&#8230;out of a can. No wonder I didn&#8217;t drink wine again for another ten years.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of wine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winehq.org\/announce\/1.6\" target=\"_blank\">Wine 1.6 has been released<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-57594322-1\/69-year-experiment-captures-pitch-tar-drop\/\" target=\"_blank\">The pitch drop has fallen<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And given that I fell in love with her a week before I met her, I have now loved Carol for 44 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a little embarrassing to the US if Britain beat us to the Pan Am Clipper, but by God, I would stand with Arthur C. Clarke and the Queen and cheer if they do. Satire is the soul of civilization: A Colorado town wants to issue drone-hunting permits. All methods allowed&#8230;and no bag [&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":[70,54,13,20],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-architecture","tag-science","tag-wine","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","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=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}