{"id":491,"date":"2008-02-22T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2008-02-22T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:59:00","slug":"odd-lots-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>From Jim Strickland comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2008\/02\/idea_a_new_typography_term.html\">this                 report of a new coinage<\/a>. How many seconds did it take for                 you to get the joke? Did you get it at all?<\/li>\n<li>Alas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfigureinsider.com\/ottertorials\/2008\/02\/10\/rejected-a-long-long-time-ago\/\">neither                 the Death Star Grill nor the Darth Vader gumball machine<\/a> made                 it past the first cut. Dayum. (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the                 link.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/340548\/expanding_table\/\">This<\/a>,                 on the other hand, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbfletcher.com\/capstan\/\">a                 real product<\/a>. (Again from Pete. Don&apos;t miss the video.) On                 the <i>other<\/i> other hand, if you have to ask, well&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Here&apos;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/starting_to_make_sense.php\">an                 interesting discussion on the economics of rooftop PV solar power                 systems<\/a>. (Thanks to Frank Glover for the pointer.) As with                 a lot of posts like this, the real action is in the comments.                 Had we stayed in Arizona\u2014and possibly built a new custom                 house there, which we were considering\u2014I would have installed                 a system like that. Note that batteries are not necessary unless                 you&apos;re completely off-grid. (A lot of people still don&apos;t understand                 this.) The power companies are basically paying you for adding                 peak power capacity to their grid by reducing your monthly bill.                 Doesn&apos;t work well everywhere, but where it does work well (basically                 the Southwest) it will become a great deal cheaper over the next                 fifteen or twenty years.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes I can spot a hoax. Sometimes I can&apos;t. And sometimes                 I just can&apos;t decide. (I know enough artistes to understand that                 anything&apos;s possible.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathyludwig.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/03\/ice-jewellery\/\">So                 you tell me.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It&apos;s hardly new news, but I don&apos;t generally walk in those precincts:                 <a href=\"http:\/\/dearauthor.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/14\/romance-books-comprise-21-of-the-631b-book-industry\/\">Romances                 represent 21% of the $6.31B print book industry<\/a>. SF\/fantasy                 comes in at $495M and mysteries are at a surprisingly low $422M.                 (Those are print book sales only. Ebooks not included.)<\/li>\n<li>Chris Gerrib called my attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/scalzi.com\/whatever\/?p=388\">a                 great rant by John Scalzi<\/a> on what&apos;s still wrong with SFWA,                 which I still haven&apos;t re-joined, and may not until I know that                 Andrew Burt has removed himself from their environs to, say, Uranus.                 And even with Burt out of the way, I&apos;d like to know what the organization                 thinks that it is, because I myself have never been quite able                 to figure it out.<\/li>\n<li>The generally clear skies in Colorado Springs failed us on Wednesday                 night for the eclipse, and while we could tell there was a moon                 up there (and could tell that it was partially occluded) details                 were utterly lacking. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jim Strickland comes this report of a new coinage. How many seconds did it take for you to get the joke? Did you get it at all? Alas, neither the Death Star Grill nor the Darth Vader gumball machine made it past the first cut. Dayum. (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link.) This, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}