{"id":657,"date":"2009-04-08T18:14:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T22:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2009-04-08T18:18:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T22:18:39","slug":"odd-lots-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>From the Words I Didn&#8217;t Know Until Yesterday Department: &#8220;charcuterie,&#8221; meaning cured meats like bacon, ham, prosciutto, and the preparation thereof.<\/li>\n<li>I talked to the realtor who&#8217;s handling the listing of the old Heinlein house here in Colorado Springs. What she said astounded me: <em>Heinlein&#8217;s 1950 custom house is still in there<\/em>. They built that ugly thing <em>around<\/em> it in 1995 or so. Parts of the original structure were removed, but most of it still exists, although it evidently was used as framing more than anything else.<\/li>\n<li>And further relevant to the Heinlein House is a report from elder SF fan Bruce Pelz, who not only visited the house in Colorado Springs in 1963 when the Heinleins were still living there, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jophan.org\/mimosa\/m27\/pelz.htm\">he slept in their legendary fallout shelter<\/a>. (Cool photo there&#8211;definitely click through! And thanks to Bruce Baker for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>Needless to say, I haven&#8217;t visited the Heinlein fallout shelter (I stood in line to shake the great man&#8217;s hand at MidAmericon in 1976, and that was the only time I ever met him) but I frequently visited the 10-foot-deep underground fallout shelter of the late William A. &#8220;Bill&#8221; Rhodes in Phoenix, which he was using as a cool (literally) computer room until his death in 2006. It was culturally jarring&#8211;people of my parents&#8217; generation took fallout shelters for granted, and people of my generation (for the most part) found them appalling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edn.com\/blog\/1470000147\/post\/450043045.html\">CFLs may not be the big environmental win that they&#8217;re being touted as<\/a>, because the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_factor\">power factor<\/a> of the lamps is very low. Thery&#8217;re still a win, but the hype needs to be pruned back a little.<\/li>\n<li>The whole idea of a CAPTCHA may be flawed, and although there are a number of objections to CAPTCHAS, <a href=\"http:\/\/technobabblepro.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/captcha-gotcha.html\">this article<\/a> pins down the primary and probably unfixable one: <em>You can pay people to solve them<\/em>. There are apparently some porn\/pirate sites that charge for access in solved CAPTCHAS. And if nothing else works, hire a CAPTCHA-breaking firm in the third world. It looks to me like CAPTCHAs are becoming at best speed-bump hindrances to bots. If I had to guess, I&#8217;d say make it slower to establish accounts, and certainly slower for one IP to sequentially attempt a CAPTCHA. Could <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teergrube\">teergrubing<\/a> make a comeback?<\/li>\n<li>For the benefit of those who asked, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anaturalsmile.com\/index.html\">here is the Web site of the people who did my crowns over this past year<\/a>. They are artists, especially Dr. Frank Seaman. The 15-month project was actually a collaboration between two independent offices in the same building. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myperiocare.com\/\">Dr. Jeanne Salcetti<\/a> did the periodontal portion (gingivectomy, tooth extraction, bone graft, and implant) and she was wonderful too. I recommend both of them without hesitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Words I Didn&#8217;t Know Until Yesterday Department: &#8220;charcuterie,&#8221; meaning cured meats like bacon, ham, prosciutto, and the preparation thereof. I talked to the realtor who&#8217;s handling the listing of the old Heinlein house here in Colorado Springs. What she said astounded me: Heinlein&#8217;s 1950 custom house is still in there. 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