{"id":328,"date":"2008-07-18T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2009-01-14T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:56:04","slug":"odd-lots-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&apos;m not quite as ga-ga as the reporter, but make no mistake:                 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/07\/17\/holy-frak-moon-transits-earth\/\">This                 is one of the most startling deep-space videos ever taken<\/a>,                 of the Moon making a transit across the Earth, seen from a distance                 of fifty million kilometers. Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link.<\/li>\n<li>My nephew Brian just bought a Blackberry cellphone and is trying                 to find a software package that will allow him to sync his Google                 Calendar data with the phone. This is something I&apos;ve never had                 to do (I do not currently have a PDA nor a smartphone) and so                 I&apos;m looking for suggestions.<\/li>\n<li>Eat kohlrabi, Dean Ornish: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/07\/080716171134.htm\">A                 long-term study published in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine<\/i><\/a>                 indicates that low-carb diets are significantly better at helping                 people lose weight and lower cholesterol than low-fat diets. As                 complex as the obesity issue is, I speak to people again and again                 and again who have found what we&apos;ve found in their own lives:                 <i>Lowering fat does not help much<\/i>. Lowering carbs, and especially                 lowering sugar, helps a <i>lot<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Carol and I were down in Lincoln Park the other day, and saw                 saturation advertising for a wind-powered condo complex that intrigued                 me enough to write the Web address down across Heath Ledger&apos;s                 late face on the <i>Red Eye<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecologiclofts.com\/about\/leed_callout.html\">Take                 a look<\/a> and read the fine print. Those well-hidden wind turbines                 on the roof generate up to <i>2%<\/i> of the building&apos;s electricity.                 And so wind power takes its place as a techno-fetish among the                 terminally hip and the gorgeously clueless. Larger turbines could                 generate significantly more of the building&apos;s power, but <i>the                 neighbors might complain<\/i>\u2014and that&apos;s not hip at all, is                 it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;m not quite as ga-ga as the reporter, but make no mistake: This is one of the most startling deep-space videos ever taken, of the Moon making a transit across the Earth, seen from a distance of fifty million kilometers. Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link. My nephew Brian just bought a Blackberry cellphone [&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":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}