{"id":5184,"date":"2024-02-07T18:35:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2024-02-07T18:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T01:35:53","slug":"odd-lots-347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5184","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Alas, we have lost my favorite country music star, Toby Keith, of stomach cancer, at 62. He had lots of hits, but may be most famous for \u201cShould\u2019ve Been a Cowboy,\u201d the most-played country song of the 1990s. (And if you\u2019ve never seen my filk \u201cShould\u2019ve Been a Jedi,\u201d you can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.) Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.<\/li>\n<li>Ever heard of Venus\u2019 moon Zoozve? You say Venus doesn\u2019t have any moons? Well\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1750952860131729544.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it\u2019s complicated<\/a>. And interesting. Not to mention funny as hell.<\/li>\n<li>Orkin (the bug people) posted a list of the top 50 US cities for bedbug infestations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orkin.com\/press-room\/2024-worst-cities-for-bed-bugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My home town is #1<\/a>. My current metro isn&#8217;t even on the list. I guess I chose wisely.<\/li>\n<li>February is National Grapefruit Month, and today is National Fettuccine Alfredo day. Alas, my birthday is National Mud Day\u2014granting that when I was a kid, I played happily in the mud. How do I know such important things? Of course: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoftheyear.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There\u2019s a website for it.<\/a> Select a day, week, or month, and who knows what people will be celebrating?<\/li>\n<li>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingmag.com\/personal-aircraft-requiring-no-certificate-to-fly-hits-u-s-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it\u2019s not exactly a flying car<\/a>, but\u2026it\u2019ll do, it\u2019ll do.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/networking\/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes were gathered into a botnet<\/a> that tormented Swiss servers with DDOS attacks. Uggh. My toothbrush is smart enough to be dumb. And hey, it smells like Pepsodent. Can\u2019t beat that!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/trout-gonads-can-cure-baldness-32055578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trout gonads can cure baldness when injected into your head<\/a>. So just eating the trout doesn&#8217;t work? Bummer. I\u2019m out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, we have lost my favorite country music star, Toby Keith, of stomach cancer, at 62. He had lots of hits, but may be most famous for \u201cShould\u2019ve Been a Cowboy,\u201d the most-played country song of the 1990s. (And if you\u2019ve never seen my filk \u201cShould\u2019ve Been a Jedi,\u201d you can find it here.) Eternal [&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":[49,81],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-music","tag-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184","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=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5185,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions\/5185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}