{"id":5274,"date":"2024-10-20T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2024-10-21T08:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:31:26","slug":"odd-lots-352","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5274","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plaud.ai\/products\/notepin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PLAUD recently announced their NotePin<\/a>, a little AI device that hangs from a string around your neck. (I assume you could clip one to your lapel, which is what I would do.) I wrote about that concept in my SF and my magazine between 1984-1992. I called them &quot;jiminies&quot; after Pinocchio&#8217;s little advisor. Nice to see it become real!<\/li>\n<li>This is clever as hell: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrianRoemmele\/status\/1836990119154253900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A sizeable chicken coop without a floor that moves to a new grassy spot in the pasture every day<\/a> and thus gives chickens fresh grass, fresh bugs, and exercise. Some are even solar powered, wow.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s yet another reason to go low-carb and especially low-sugar: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/TJ99v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a study showing that high-sugar diets may inhibit neuron growth in the brain<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been doing low-carb\/sugar for 27 years now. I sure hope this study is correct!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2024\/10\/17\/weight-loss-drugs-help-alcoholism-opioid-addiction\/2571729179969\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wegovy and similar weight-loss drugs may treat alcoholism and opioid addiction<\/a>. More research needed, obviously, but boy, that would be HUGE if proven.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.lazarus.freepascal.org\/index.php\/topic,68708.0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lazarus 3.6 is now out.<\/a> Built with FPC 3.2.2. Bugfix release, but why not have the latest?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/science\/space\/nasa-is-creating-a-time-zone-for-the-moon-in-space-every-microsecond-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Moon is getting its own time zone<\/a>\u2014or at least a system of standard time that would greatly help calculations of lunar missions. It\u2019s made complicated by the fact that gravitational time dilation is involved; i.e., the gravity of the moon is less than Earth\u2019s gravity, which makes a lunar second shorter than an Earth second. Not much, but at the speeds of spacecraft, that tiny difference can really mess up a mission. [Note well: I got this wrong the first time, <strong>and corrected the error here<\/strong>. Alex Dillard pointed out my error and provided a long and detailed explanation of the problem in the comments. Definitely read his comment!]<\/li>\n<li>Roy Harvey sent me a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-35840393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a BBC article about \u201cknocker uppers,\u201d<\/a> the people who woke people up to go to work during the British industrial revolution by tapping on their windows with a long pole (especially for upper stories) or (egad) with little hammers. I guess the British never knew that \u201cknocked up\u201d meant \u201cgot pregnant\u201d out here in the Colonies.<\/li>\n<li>From my friend Pete comes a report of a study indicating that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/high-cholesterol-isn-t-always-080000643.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high cholesterol isn\u2019t a heart disease risk if you keep your diet low in carbs and sugar<\/a>. I\u2019ve heard that in a few other places, but this is a real study, and I sure hope it\u2019s true, as I\u2019ve been low carb\/sugar now for over 25 years.<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Martin recently posted <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/charlie-martin\/2024\/10\/11\/dont-call-it-space-prn-n4933260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a number of superb astrophotos<\/a>, including a picture of hurricane Milton from orbit. I can call them superb because astronomy has been a hobby of mine for over sixty years. Don\u2019t miss it.<\/li>\n<li>Carol and I did see comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from our front yard, but it was a bare smudge by naked eye, and only showed a trace of coma in binoculars. Yes, we live in Phoenix and light pollution can be intense here. That said, I\u2019m pretty sure that comet Hale-Bopp (1997) and Hyakutake (1996) were lots brighter, and Hale-Bopp was visible for a very long time as comet appearances go.<\/li>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLAUD recently announced their NotePin, a little AI device that hangs from a string around your neck. (I assume you could clip one to your lapel, which is what I would do.) I wrote about that concept in my SF and my magazine between 1984-1992. I called them &quot;jiminies&quot; after Pinocchio&#8217;s little advisor. Nice to [&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":[44],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","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=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}