{"id":355,"date":"2008-06-12T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:38:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T01:38:50","slug":"odd-lots-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Aero won his first &#8220;major&#8221; (a win against at least                 three other males of his breed) at the Colorado Springs Kennel                 Club dog show this past weekend. That gives him a total of five                 points toward the fifteen he needs (and the first of two majors)                 to win his championship.<\/li>\n<li>Shopping a little harder for gas these days? <a href=\"http:\/\/gasbuddy.com\/\">This                 site may help<\/a>, keeping in mind that driving miles to save                 pennies isn&apos;t always a win\u2014and the price could change before                 you get there. (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the pointer.)<\/li>\n<li>Neal Rest sent me a pointer to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs\">&#8220;Ten                 Things I Hate About Commandments,&#8221;<\/a> which is a parody                 trailer made as a remix of scenes from a very famous movie that                 you may recognize. It&apos;s less a parody of the film than of film                 trailers in general, and <i>very<\/i> funny.<\/li>\n<li>From Roy Harvey comes a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavoisier.com.au\/papers\/Conf2007\/Archibald2007.pdf\">a                 paper<\/a> containing a great deal of data on historical climate                 change. I don&apos;t agree with all the points made by the author,                 but the paper is so thick with graphs that I&apos;m not sure his conclusions                 are the real value-add here. Do take a look.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L_N6EOmWtN8\">One of                 the scariest videos I&apos;ve seen in a while<\/a> shows a good-sized                 house literally sliding into the rampaging Wisconsin River and                 floating away downstream. Lake Delton, near Wisconsin Dells and                 home of the (in)famous Tommy Bartlett Water Ski and Jumping Boat                 Thrill Show, basically created a new channel for itself and drained                 completely into the Wisconsin River, driven by massive rains.                 The Dells themselves weren&apos;t directly affected, but a great deal                 of aquatic activity on Lake Delton (duck boats, jet skis, and                 poor Tommy) are now gone for the rest of the 2008 season. (And                 we&apos;re going to the Dells this July!)<\/li>\n<li>Missed including this one a couple of months ago, but it&apos;s worth                 some consideration: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/06\/technology\/06sweat.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">Blogging                 has become the new work-at-home piecework<\/a>, with &#8220;professional&#8221;                 (read here: sometimes paid) bloggers working themselves literally                 to death for as little as $10 per post. Damn, I wish my blog earned                 me that little! (Here&apos;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=8389&amp;tag=nl.e550\">a                 counterpoint that misses the point a little<\/a>, but worth reading                 for balance.)<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I stumbled on <a href=\"http:\/\/curiousexpeditions.org\/\">Curious                 Expeditions<\/a> while trying to find aerial photos of the Roman                 Catholic church I grew up in on the Web. No dice on the church                 (it&apos;s so ugly the parish Web site contains no photos of it!) but                 if you want to see a picture of a petrified bat, Galileo&apos;s mummified                 middle finger (now, who did he give it to?) or hundreds of other                 peculiar things, this is the place. It&apos;s not all creepshow stuff,                 either: <a href=\"http:\/\/curiousexpeditions.org\/?p=321\">The entry                 on New York City&apos;s pneumatic message system<\/a> (similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cix.co.uk\/%7Emhayhurst\/jdhayhurst\/pneumatic\/book1.html\">the                 legendary pneu of France<\/a>) is the best treatment I&apos;ve seen                 on the American side of the subject.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aero won his first &#8220;major&#8221; (a win against at least three other males of his breed) at the Colorado Springs Kennel Club dog show this past weekend. That gives him a total of five points toward the fifteen he needs (and the first of two majors) to win his championship. 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