{"id":392,"date":"2008-05-25T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T01:51:14","slug":"odd-lots-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Someone&apos;s invented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skforlee.com\/independent_work\/easy_pb.html\">a                 glass jar with a screw-on lid on both ends<\/a>. Makes sense: By                 the time you reach the bottom of the peanut butter, most of the                 oil is gone and what&apos;s left is as hard as a rock. Or, alternate                 lids and gradually work your way toward the middle. If you keep                 alternating which end is up, the oil won&apos;t be as likely to collect                 on either end and the peanut butter may stay softer until it&apos;s                 all gone.<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Baker directs us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homebrewcpu.com\/\">a                 Webring of homebrew CPUs<\/a>. No VLSI. No LSI. Maybe TTL chips.                 Or discrete transistors. Or relays. I wire-wrapped a COSMAC machine                 with 2K of RAM back in 1977, and I thought it was a job. Wow.<\/li>\n<li>As an individual with a &#8220;special relationship&#8221; to                 calculus (and a special fondness for filk) I damned near bust                 a gut watching <a href=\"http:\/\/idle.slashdot.org\/idle\/08\/05\/24\/1335258.shtml?tid=133\">this<\/a>.                 The Slashdot commenters (who are interesting all by themselves)                 need to get a life, or at very least a sense of humor. Most of                 them weren&apos;t even alive when Disco was first-run, and so I suspect                 the comedy shoots right by them.<\/li>\n<li>Epson has been demonstrating a proof-of-concept model of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fareastgizmos.com\/other_stuff\/electronic_papers_to_replace_traditional_papers_very_soon.php\">an                 A4-sized e-ink display<\/a> with a mind-boggling resolution of                 3104 X 4128 pixels, in monochrome. 385 DPI is more than enough                 for monochrome graphics (though gray-level depth is not stated)                 and within a few years, a full-sized letter\/A4 ebook reader will                 not only be possible but inevitable.<\/li>\n<li>From Jan Westerlink comes a pointer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstkites.nl\/projectsinprogress.html\">a                 wonderful gallery of home-made kites<\/a>, including one I especially                 like, especially in light of yesterday&apos;s entry: A 4-cell tetrahedral                 made by rubber-banding 24 bamboo shish-kebob skewers together.                 Scroll down to pictures 24 and 25. Beautifully done, if a little                 prickly: If that thing dives toward you, duck!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone&apos;s invented a glass jar with a screw-on lid on both ends. Makes sense: By the time you reach the bottom of the peanut butter, most of the oil is gone and what&apos;s left is as hard as a rock. Or, alternate lids and gradually work your way toward the middle. If you keep alternating [&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-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}