{"id":3470,"date":"2015-07-26T10:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T16:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2015-07-26T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T16:34:51","slug":"odd-lots-284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3470","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This stuff has been piling up. And I&#8217;ve been tired and perhaps a little grouchy. It&#8217;s just a phase I&#8217;m going through.<\/li>\n<li>From the People-Whom-I-Had-Once-Known-About-But-Then-Forgot Department: <a href= \"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Annie_Jump_Cannon\" target= \"_blank\">Annie Jump Cannon<\/a>, who mostly eclipsed Edward Pickering while helping to complete the Harvard Classification Scheme for stars. <a href= \"http:\/\/www.rejectedprincesses.com\/princesses\/annie-jump-cannon\" target=\"_blank\">Annie made it into the slightly snotty but very entertaining<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rejectedprincesses.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rejected Princesses site<\/a>. (Thanks to <a href= \"https:\/\/www.affsdiary.com\/shadow\/\" target=\"_blank\">R. K. Modena<\/a> for reminding me of Annie and pointing me to Rejected Princesses.)<\/li>\n<li>Alas, it sounds a lot like <a href= \"http:\/\/the-digital-reader.com\/2015\/07\/08\/the-beginning-of-the-end-bn-shutters-the-international-nook-store\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nook is circling the drain<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Huh? <a href= \"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2015\/07\/22\/arctic-expedition-to-study-global-warming-put-on-hold-because-of-too-much-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\">A scientific expedition to the Arctic to study how global warming is melting Arctic ice had to be postponed because&#8230;there&#8217;s too much ice in the Arctic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/07\/150709092955.htm\" target=\"_blank\">And you wondered why we just bought a house in Arizona<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/space.io9.com\/how-we-keep-new-telescope-smell-from-killing-space-tele-1716544778\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s how NASA keeps &#8220;new telescope smell&#8221; from destroying new space telescopes<\/a>. (Thanks to Frank Glover for the link.) One can only speculate what garlic breath would do to them.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/io9.com\/china-is-building-an-absolutely-massive-radio-telescope-1719983857\" target=\"_blank\">A half-klick diameter radio telescope is under construction in China<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Supreme Court just ruled that <a href= \"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2015\/06\/22\/supremes-hand-victory-to-ca-raisin-growers.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the Feds can&#8217;t just take a raisin farmer&#8217;s raisins and give them to other people<\/a>. That would be, like, theft or something. Government wouldn&#8217;t do that, right?<\/li>\n<li>So you can now keep your raisins. But watch out for your kids: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/09\/opinion\/why-is-the-federal-government-afraid-of-fat.html\" target=\"_blank\">The National School Lunch Program bans whole milk from school lunches but allows sugar-sweetened skim milk<\/a>. Government always knows best, even if it kills you.<\/li>\n<li>Cool optical hack: <a href= \"http:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=114775\" target=\"_blank\">Project the image of the full Moon from a telescope onto a ping-pong ball and get a 3-D model of the Moon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This has been around for awhile, but it&#8217;s worth bookmarking: <a href= \"http:\/\/whatreallyhappened.com\/WRHARTICLES\/globalwarming2.html\" target=\"_blank\">a very big list of all the things (supposedly, if often ludicrously) caused by global warming<\/a>. Science journalism makes climate science look silly and dishonest, and science generally look bad. I used to think I should have gone to journalism school. Now I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s starting to sound like a dumping ground for failed Polly Sigh majors.<\/li>\n<li>Evidence? <a href= \"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/junk-science-garbage-policy\/article\/2567516\" target=\"_blank\">A scientist hoaxed the media by inventing a study showing that you can lose weight eating chocolate bars&#8230;and the media bought it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.whatisthatsong.net\/commercials\/commercialsa-z.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a database of POP songs used in TV commercials<\/a>. It does not list (as best I can tell) commercials that were later morphed into pop songs, like &#8220;<a href= \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ov81jKvY7X0\" target=\"_blank\">She Lets Her Hair Down<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href= \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XLmPvLnXCE8\" target=\"_blank\">Come to the Sunshine<\/a>,&#8221; both originally hair product ads.<\/li>\n<li>In the new film <em>Pixels<\/em>, <a href= \"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/all-these-things-actually-happen-in-adam-sandlers-pixel-1720012596\" target=\"_blank\">Pac Man attacks Manhattan<\/a>. The concept reminds me of a very old and really bad TV movie in which an airplane gets stuck between two days of the week, and its passengers have to confront titanic Pac-Man like monsters that eat each expired day&#8217;s reality so that the new day can be constructed on a clean backdrop. (Or something.) But damn if I can remember what movie that was.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This stuff has been piling up. And I&#8217;ve been tired and perhaps a little grouchy. It&#8217;s just a phase I&#8217;m going through. From the People-Whom-I-Had-Once-Known-About-But-Then-Forgot Department: Annie Jump Cannon, who mostly eclipsed Edward Pickering while helping to complete the Harvard Classification Scheme for stars. Annie made it into the slightly snotty but very entertaining Rejected [&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":[41,17,39,122,49,68],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-astronomy","tag-ebooks","tag-health","tag-law","tag-music","tag-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}