{"id":729,"date":"2009-05-11T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T02:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2009-05-11T22:38:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T02:38:29","slug":"odd-lots-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>The rest of Bichonicon was uneventful enough (and I was tired enough) that I decided it wasn&#8217;t worth a whole &#8216;nother entry. Aero won a ribbon on Saturday, but did not win points. Carol and I ate too much fast food. We came home. End of story.<\/li>\n<li>I did briefly run into St. Louis native Nancy Frier, granddaughter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.junkbox.com\/kites\/AloxKites.shtml\">the man who founded Alox Manufacturing Company<\/a>, maker of shoelances, kites, marbles, military radar corner reflectors, and lots of other odd bits. She had visited a marble factory in West Virginia and showed me a video of glass marbles being made on a machine very similar to the one Alox had used. It&#8217;s a great video, and when she uploads it to YouTube I&#8217;ll post a link here.<\/li>\n<li>And I found two bottles of Diet Green River. The trick is to look in small local grocery stores or local chains, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenfreshmarket.com\/\">Garden Fresh Markets<\/a> or Shop and Save. Have not yet checked the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buteramarket.com\/\">Butera<\/a>, but it&#8217;s on my list.<\/li>\n<li>A reader chided me that &#8220;All your damn dogs look alike. Post more pictures of Carol.&#8221; He&#8217;s right about the dogs, I guess, but I have posted quite a few pictures of Carol in my photo gallery. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/junkbox.com\/gallery\/JeffAndCarol\">here&#8217;s an almost 40-year run of the two of us together<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From the Words I Didn&#8217;t Know (or at least understand) Until Yesterday Department: &#8220;Kukla&#8221; is Russian for &#8220;doll.&#8221; The eponymous little guy on the seminal Kukla, Fran, and Ollie kids&#8217; show had been built as a doll for a friend by puppeteer Burr Tillstrom, who liked the doll so much that Tillstrom kept him, and made him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZxSbjhBFRs&amp;NR=1\">the star of the show<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From the Words I Didn&#8217;t Know Until Yesterday (And Didn&#8217;t Think Were Necessary) Department: A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merkin\">merkin<\/a> is a wig for women&#8217;s genitalia; basically, a pubic toupee. Sheesh. English has a word for <em>everything<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/james-iry.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html\">A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages<\/a>. I think it&#8217;s truer than people will admit, especially the Pascal entry. Thanks to Bruce Baker for the link.<\/li>\n<li>Blandishments: Salt-free mustard and ketchup.<\/li>\n<li>A guy scraped Twitter data for the phrase &#8220;just landed in&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.blprnt.com\/blog\/blprnt\/just-landed-processing-twitter-metacarta-hidden-data\">mapped the air travel data<\/a>, hoping to create a new tool for epidemiology. Germs like jet aircraft for various reasons, and this is the first genuine use for the Twitter system that I&#8217;ve ever heard of.<\/li>\n<li>I follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icecap.us\/\">Icecap<\/a> as part of my ongoing climate research, and it&#8217;s interesting for another reason: It consists of a navigation column and three narrow content columns. I&#8217;ve never seen another blog with a layout quite like this, and I like it. Narrow is better than wide, especially for small print. Scanability (given that I don&#8217;t read every entry) is high.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, some images speak for themselves. <a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_vrvO78y6YkU\/Sfz9PGvhKTI\/AAAAAAAAKts\/f9SS8YN-cIs\/s1600-h\/imageserror.jpg\">This<\/a> is one of them. (Thanks to Baron Waste for the link.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rest of Bichonicon was uneventful enough (and I was tired enough) that I decided it wasn&#8217;t worth a whole &#8216;nother entry. Aero won a ribbon on Saturday, but did not win points. Carol and I ate too much fast food. We came home. End of story. 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