{"id":3719,"date":"2016-05-15T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T22:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2016-05-15T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T22:07:48","slug":"odd-lots-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Somebody over at <em>USA Today<\/em> seems to think that <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmed.hs.llnwd.net\/e11\/instapundit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/whenstatesgethigh.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado is just a little too high&#8230;<\/a> (Thanks to Sarah Hoyt for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>Not new news, but startling: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/27\/world\/europe\/belgians-share-their-land-with-world-war-i-reminders.html\" target=\"_blank\">They&#8217;re <em>still<\/em> digging up live, century-old ordnance in France and Belgium<\/a>. I suspect they&#8217;ll still be digging it up a century from now.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href= \"http:\/\/wiki.freepascal.org\/How_To_Write_Lazarus_Component\" target= \"_blank\">an overview of how to write custom components for the Lazarus Component Library<\/a> (LCL). Doesn&#8217;t have anything on <a href= \"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visual-Developer-Developing-Custom-Components\/dp\/1576101126\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Konopka&#8217;s book<\/a>, alas.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/periodictable.com\/Properties\/A\/CrustAbundance.an.html\" target=\"_blank\">How much of each chemical element is there in the Earth&#8217;s crust?<\/a> Among other revelations, there&#8217;s 150% as much ytterbium as uranium. In fact, there&#8217;s more ytterbium on Earth than tin.<\/li>\n<li>There is <a href= \"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/chips\/this-tiny-tube-amp-is-a-hat-for-your-raspberry-pi-1654043\/\" target=\"_blank\">a small circuit-board add-on that snaps onto a Raspberry Pi and provides a tube audio amp<\/a>. (Thanks to Rick Hellewell for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>Going further back in Unlikely Time reveals <a href= \"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=steampunk+raspberry+pi+case&amp;biw=1600&amp;bih=1036&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjM5v7Yi93MAhVkzoMKHeqlCG0QsAQIGw\" target=\"_blank\">a plethora of Steampunk Raspberry Pi cases<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In truth, my experience shows that you can search for images of &#8220;steampunk [whatever]&#8221; and find it. Oftentimes a <em>lot<\/em> of it. Try <a href= \"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=steampunk+raspberry+pi+case&amp;biw=1600&amp;bih=1022&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiqvLiQ_tzMAhXk7oMKHX3fCHI4ChD8BQgGKAE#tbm=isch&amp;q=steampunk+geiger+counter&amp;imgrc=_\" target=\"_blank\">steampunk Geiger counters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ya blink and ya miss it: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SanDisk-Extreme-512GB-Memory-SDSDXPA-512G-G46\/dp\/B00NP699ZI\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandisk now has a 512GB SD card<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Note well: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/512GB-Micro-Memory-Class10-Adapter\/dp\/B01ERXZ0RI\/\" target=\"_blank\">There are also fakes<\/a>. Amazon keeps taking them down, and they keep coming back. (Read the single comment.)<\/li>\n<li>Baron Waste sends <a href= \"http:\/\/flashbak.com\/inner-workings-antique-calculators-dramatically-photographed-kevin-twomey-58255\/\" target=\"_blank\">a link to a marvelous gallery of high-res photos of mechanical calculator innards<\/a>. One of the inspirations for <em>The Cunning Blood<\/em> was the insight that my Selectric typewriter contained no electronics at all, and could be run from a windmill or a water wheel.<\/li>\n<li>From the I-Am-Not-Making-This-Up Department: <a href= \"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_sexually_active_popes\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia has a list of sexually active popes<\/a>; it&#8217;s incomplete. Who knew?<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/when-the-past-and-future-collide-russian-reenactor-tak-1776647026\" target=\"_blank\">A guy at a Russian Renaissance Faire hurled a spear at a drone&#8211;and hit it<\/a>. That is capital-B badassery in my book. Me, I would have used a Wrist Rocket&#8211;but I&#8217;m neither medieval nor Russian.<\/li>\n<li>Not all of us are fooled: <em>If you have to signal it, it&#8217;s not virtue<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody over at USA Today seems to think that Colorado is just a little too high&#8230; (Thanks to Sarah Hoyt for the link.) Not new news, but startling: They&#8217;re still digging up live, century-old ordnance in France and Belgium. I suspect they&#8217;ll still be digging it up a century from now. Here&#8217;s an overview of [&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":[15,44,43,132,82,90,32,54],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-hardware","tag-history","tag-humor","tag-lazarus","tag-media","tag-pascal","tag-programming","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","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=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}