{"id":302,"date":"2008-08-28T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2009-01-14T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:41:53","slug":"odd-lots-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>We have lost another Duntemann, in a world where there have                 never been many: John Philip Duntemann of Des Plaines, Illinois                 died this past Monday night, of cancer. He was 83. John Phil (which                 is how he was known in our family) was a strong and gentle man,                 my father&apos;s first cousin, who raised seven children and saw them                 earn a collection of advanced degrees like I have never seen in                 a single household. (Most of the Duntemanns you see online who                 aren&apos;t me are his children.) John was in England during the Blitz,                 and tells the story of how he heard an odd noise at one point                 while working on a piece of construction machinery, put his wrench                 down, looked up, and saw the guldurndest little airplane fly thirty                 feet over his head, to go on another mile or so and explode. It                 was a Nazi V-1. He didn&apos;t know that he was experiencing history;                 he would say he that was just doing his job. (I&apos;d prefer not to                 live that kind of history!) Godspeed, John. Mission accomplished.<\/li>\n<li>Pat Thurman K7KR sent me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiosystemsgroup.com\/restaurants.htm\">a                 nice set of reviews of Chicago restaurants<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Also from K7KR comes word that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/community\/news\/deland\/orl-sundead2408aug24,0,813189.story\">Tom                 Kneitel has left us<\/a>. Tom was a wickedly funny writer from                 the heyday of CB and build-it-yourself electronics, and I used                 to read his column in <i>Electronics Illustrated<\/i> before I                 looked at anything else. (In flipping through some old issues                 this morning, it sounds weirdly like a blog.) Oddly, his most                 famous book was a small press thing about how to listen in on                 other people&apos;s cordless phones, which was evidently quite a hobby                 in the 80s and 90s, when they were basically FM walkie-talkies.                 He was also the grandson of cartoonmeister Max Fleischer.<\/li>\n<li>If you were ever asked to carry around $1000 as either dimes                 or quarters, which would you pick? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/article.php\/density\">Now                 you don&apos;t have to do the math<\/a>. Hint: It&apos;s a&#8230;coin toss. (Thanks                 to Jim Strickland for the pointer.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5023076\/thrill+crazed-space-bugs-swarm-through-worlds-longest-novel\">The                 world&apos;s longest novel is SF<\/a>\u2014and it&apos;s about mutant cicadas\u2014or                 something. 12.6 million words. At least he sounds like he&apos;s having                 fun. (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the heads-up.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2008\/08\/emily_is_not_real.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890\">This                 face-animation technology<\/a> seems awesome on the face of it                 (as it were) but in reading the explanation, it sure starts to                 sound like his-res rotoscoping to me. Hey guys, do it without                 a model reading the lines for you, and I&apos;ll be <i>much<\/i> more                 impressed.<\/li>\n<li>I&apos;m having hosting service problems here\u2014have had them                 for some time, actually\u2014and will probably jump to another                 service in coming months. I&apos;m considering using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joomla.org\/\">Joomla<\/a>                 to host Contra and my photo galleries, and create an online SF                 workshopping system. I&apos;m tired of editing Contra by hand, but                 I&apos;m unwilling to have its primary instance outside my control,                 as it would be if it lived entirely on LiveJournal or Blogger.                 Anybody out there have any thoughts on Joomla as a platform for                 this sort of thing?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have lost another Duntemann, in a world where there have never been many: John Philip Duntemann of Des Plaines, Illinois died this past Monday night, of cancer. He was 83. 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