{"id":2569,"date":"2012-07-15T20:48:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2012-07-15T20:50:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:50:41","slug":"odd-lots-195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t know this until the other day: The instrumental riff in ELP&#8217;s &#8220;Touch and Go&#8221; is not ultimately from Ralph Vaughan Williams&#8217;s &#8220;Variations on Greensleeves.&#8221; It&#8217;s a far older folk melody called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lovely_Joan\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lovely Joan,&#8221;<\/a> and the song is about a girl who, when asked by some aristocratic lout to hand over her virginity in exchange for a ring and a roll in the hay, keeps her virginity and steals his horse instead. <em>Much<\/em> better deal.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.sucuri.net\/?yahooleak\" target=\"_blank\">a tool to see if your email was on one of the 400,000 accounts recently leaked from Yahoo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>One of the big downsides of the ASUS Transformer Prime is that the micro SD card pops out of its slot very easily. I found mine on the cushion of my reading chair the other day, and have no least clue how I managed that, apart from sitting there and looking at some weather maps. I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.androidcentral.com\/asus-transformer-prime\/162439-warning-careful-you-could-loose-your-micro-sd-card.html\" target=\"_blank\">evidently not the only one with this problem<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t been over to <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/\">The Consumerist<\/a> in some time, but when I tried to go there the other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/safebrowsing.clients.google.com\/safebrowsing\/diagnostic?client=Firefox&amp;hl=en-US&amp;site=http:\/\/consumerist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google marked it as an attack site<\/a>. There&#8217;s not much to go by in Google&#8217;s details page, but it looks like an ad vector. This is why I use AdBlock Plus. (I went there from Linux and nothing bad happened.) UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2012\/07\/important-message-for-consumerist-readers.html\" target=\"_blank\">They fixed the problem<\/a>. Lesson: Nobody&#8217;s immune. Use AdBlock Plus.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to watch for auroras tonight, as far south as (I hope!) Colorado. Look east just before dawn and you&#8217;ll catch Jupiter, Venus, and maybe the crescent Moon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2009\/09\/23\/sarriugarte-and-mate.html\" target=\"_blank\">A ride-em Iron Trilobyte!<\/a> Yee-hah!<\/li>\n<li>From the Utterly Obscure But Brilliant Music Department: Hunt down &#8220;The Last Farewell&#8221; by the New Christy Minstrels, from their ambum <em>Ramblin&#8217;<\/em> (1964.) Bone-chilling harmony on the ancient melody <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Water_Is_Wide_(song)\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;O Waly, Waly.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From the Found Quotes Department: &#8220;It is all but impossible to sit quietly by while someone is throwing salad plates.&#8221; &#8211;James Thurber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know this until the other day: The instrumental riff in ELP&#8217;s &#8220;Touch and Go&#8221; is not ultimately from Ralph Vaughan Williams&#8217;s &#8220;Variations on Greensleeves.&#8221; It&#8217;s a far older folk melody called &#8220;Lovely Joan,&#8221; and the song is about a girl who, when asked by some aristocratic lout to hand over her virginity in [&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":[41,15,43,49],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-astronomy","tag-hardware","tag-humor","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}