{"id":3085,"date":"2014-03-14T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T20:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2014-03-14T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T20:36:10","slug":"odd-lots-249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Yeeeeeeeeeee-HAH!*<\/li>\n<li>One of my backchannel correspondents emailed me some weeks ago: &#8220;I know what you&#8217;re working on. Not much of a secret <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Learning-Computer-Architecture-Raspberry-Pi\/dp\/1118900421\/\" target=\"_blank\">if it&#8217;s listed on Amazon<\/a>.&#8221; True dat. I&#8217;m just following orders.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303704304579379100601034852\" target=\"_blank\">People in disorderly environments pay more for the same things, and appear to think less clearly generally<\/a>. I guess I had better start shoveling out my office before I go broke.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/18\/science\/hills-to-scientific-discoveries-grow-steeper.html?ref=science\" target=\"_blank\">This is not just a problem in exotic physics<\/a>. This is a problem in <em>all<\/em> modern science, particularly the science of complex systems. The easy stuff has been done. Everything else is measuring gnats in a sandstorm.<\/li>\n<li>Video shot from far away generally makes volcanic eruptions look like they&#8217;re unfolding in slow motion. Get a quadricopter up to the edge of an erupting volcano, and <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-drone-footage-of-an-erupting-volcano-is-absolutely-1541975488\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly it all looks a whole lot&#8230;<em>faster<\/em><\/a> .<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/siberiantimes.com\/science\/casestudy\/news\/exclusive-siberian-scientists-announce-they-now-have-a-high-chance-to-clone-the-extinct-woolly-mammoth\/\" target=\"_blank\">A new frozen woolly mammoth find<\/a> may provide what scientists would need to clone a mammoth. Now, will you guys please go looking for frozen glytodont?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/these-lumpy-interconnected-tubes-of-concrete-like-wet-1542126936\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is what happens when you try to print a house on a gigantic Epson fanfold printer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovebacon.com\/fresh-bacon\/stoner-cookie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Make one with sweet red wine<\/a>, and it would be unbeatable.<\/li>\n<li>* If you don&#8217;t know by now what I&#8217;m cheering about, well, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3083\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday&#8217;s entry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeeeeeeeeeee-HAH!* One of my backchannel correspondents emailed me some weeks ago: &#8220;I know what you&#8217;re working on. Not much of a secret if it&#8217;s listed on Amazon.&#8221; True dat. I&#8217;m just following orders. People in disorderly environments pay more for the same things, and appear to think less clearly generally. I guess I had better [&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":[70,43,46,54],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-architecture","tag-humor","tag-psychology","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}