{"id":3798,"date":"2016-10-16T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T21:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2016-10-16T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T22:00:56","slug":"odd-lots-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3798","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visuino.com\/\" target= \"_blank\">Visuino<\/a>, which is a visual development environment for the Arduino embedded processor family. This is a beautiful thing, and makes me wish I still ran a certain magazine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/introducing-pixel\/\" target=\"_blank\">And there&#8217;s a new default OS for the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3<\/a>. (Don&#8217;t try it on the earlier boards, nor the Pi Zero.) Looks good from here, and my RPi 3 will get the treatment as time allows.<\/li>\n<li>75 years ago, <a href= \"https:\/\/eos.org\/features\/the-geomagnetic-blitz-of-september-1941\" target=\"_blank\">there was a butt-kicking geomagnetic storm<\/a>. Not exactly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_storm_of_1859\" target=\"_blank\">Carrington<\/a>, but it makes me wonder how our infinitely more electronic culture would respond to such a storm today.<\/li>\n<li>Chemporn: <a href= \"http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/watch-chemical-elements-burn-and-transform-into-awesome-1787769225\" target=\"_blank\">How sodium and other twitchy elements burn<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As of today, there are <em>no<\/em> Obamacare individual policies available in Maricopa County, Arizona. <em>None<\/em>. Granted, open enrollment does not begin until November 1, but we qualify to purchase because we&#8217;re moving interstate. <a href= \"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/money\/business\/health\/2016\/09\/15\/new-obamacare-insurer-comes-maricopa-county-another-exits-centene-corp\/90416374\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona officials are still reviewing a proposal from Centene to offer an HMO here, and if approved, it would be the only plan available<\/a> in this county. This is not a robust healthcare marketplace. This is a law that has already imploded.<\/li>\n<li>More evidence? <a href= \"http:\/\/khn.org\/morning-breakout\/some-states-to-be-left-with-few-or-no-aca-options-after-aetnas-pullback\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the firehose<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Implosions, anybody? <a href= \"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2016\/09\/22\/were-laughing-at-the-selfdestruction-of-the-media-gatekeepers-n2221769\" target=\"_blank\">Great rant about the ongoing imposion of the media elite<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/13\/well\/live\/prostate-cancer-treatment-can-raise-dementia-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\">Low testosterone appears to predispose men to dementia<\/a>. It&#8217;s unclear (and no longer automatically asserted) that high testosterone predisposes men to prostate cancer. (Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>There is <a href= \"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/calendar\/create.html\" target=\"_blank\">a very nice online PDF calendar generator<\/a> that will create a calendar in PDF format for any string of months you might want. (The site has much else worth exploring related to calendrics.) You can add in holidays, solstices\/equinoxes, phases of the moon, and so on. This pretty much makes my 1999 copy of Calendar Creator&#8230;useless. (Thanks to reader Spook for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>How <em>The Atlantic<\/em> explains Donald Trump: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/09\/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh\/501335\/\" target=\"_blank\">The media takes him literally but not seriously, and his fans take him seriously but not literally<\/a>. This may in fact explain a great deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at Visuino, which is a visual development environment for the Arduino embedded processor family. This is a beautiful thing, and makes me wish I still ran a certain magazine. And there&#8217;s a new default OS for the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3. (Don&#8217;t try it on the earlier boards, nor the Pi [&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":[39,82,32,128,54,14],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-health","tag-media","tag-programming","tag-rpi","tag-science","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","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=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}