{"id":667,"date":"2009-04-17T11:33:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T15:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2023-09-21T09:43:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:43:30","slug":"odd-lots-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>How about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Steampunk-Segway-Legway-\/\">steampunk Segway<\/a>? It&#8217;s self-balancing as long as its rider is self-balancing, I guess&#8211;and certainly burns more calories.<\/li>\n<li>Or (while you&#8217;re pretending to be King Edward VII) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zaskoda\/sets\/72157616614827092\/\">a steampunk snowboard<\/a>? Are there any steampunk types who are my age, or is it all a twentysomething crowd? I recently saw an antique foot-powered dentist&#8217;s drill machine circa 1890. Nice ornate cast ironwork and bronze&#8211;and made me <em>very<\/em> glad I&#8217;m 120 years away from it.<\/li>\n<li>If you use Linux, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/04\/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious\">staythehell out of Boston<\/a>. It&#8217;s considered <em>prima facie<\/em> evidence of criminal activity. Damn, those people need another invasion of the Mooninites. (Thanks to Bruce Baker for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>Ah, the price of increasing popularity: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/security\/?p=3157\">There is now a Mac botnet<\/a> launching DDoS attacks. (Or&#8230;I wonder&#8230;could Symantec be about to launch a new Mac security product?)<\/li>\n<li>Our TV Guide listings stopped working on Comcast basic analog cable a few weeks ago. We thought it was our TV&#8211;and the Comcast people were less than helpful&#8211;but apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/technocrat.net\/d\/2007\/12\/25\/32233\/index.html\/\">it&#8217;s a consequence of the big move to digital TV<\/a>. The TV Guide listings data rode in on an analog sidecar to the analog PBS signal, and now that PBS has gone all-digital, there&#8217;s no sidecar anymore. (Thanks to Bill Roper for digging this one up&#8211;he has a similar problem with his DVR.)<\/li>\n<li>There is a pizza place in San Diego called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/67992206@N00\/2339051425\/\">Killer Pizza from Mars<\/a>. (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link.) Interestingly, my best friend Art and I did some brainstorming about opening a pizza place in Rogers Park called Tranquility Base when we got out of college in recession-year 1974, but nothing came of it. (He would have been the cook. I would have been the waiter; probably the one thing that paid less than fixing Xerox machines.)<\/li>\n<li>They do things big in Nebraska: The last full week of September sees the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.junkjaunt.com\/index.php\">Nebraska Junk Jaunt<\/a>, in which ten midstate counties hold a collective garage sale along a 300-mile route, with 500+ vendors participating, and that&#8217;s only the ones they know about. Start early, see them all! (Damn, I&#8217;m tempted!)<\/li>\n<li>Finally, it&#8217;s April 17, and we&#8217;re in the midst of a blizzard here in Colorado Springs. The carpet cleaners had to postpone the job, and we had to cancel our gym session today. We may get a foot or more between here and Sunday, and peeking out the window I already see 3&#8243; or so. This has been the damndest coldest, longest winter in our six years here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/mar\/04\/the-gore-effect\/\">Has Al Gore been sneaking around the Springs somewhere?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about a steampunk Segway? It&#8217;s self-balancing as long as its rider is self-balancing, I guess&#8211;and certainly burns more calories. Or (while you&#8217;re pretending to be King Edward VII) a steampunk snowboard? Are there any steampunk types who are my age, or is it all a twentysomething crowd? 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