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From the industry

By which I of course mean the business. Who’s doing what with that shortcode? Especially interesting to me is that the Pope’s thought of the day has (at least) two different shortcodes. Makes me wish I had noted what shortcode they used at the ballpark last night for voting on what song they should play […]

Books of Lost Swords Review

The Books of Lost Swords, Saberhagen. No. Prompted by recent reading, I re-read all eight of the Lost Swords books. I get the feeling Fred gave up about mid-way through (probably around the Sherlock Holmes hommage), and by the last couple wanted to kill the series so badly that he ignored the previous rules by […]

Finally, our astronomical nightmare is over

Just when I had given up hope (due to misleading news coverage that suggested the round=planet proposal was a fait accompli), the IAU finally made the right choice regarding Pluto. The additional criterion (missing from an earlier version of the BBC report) is that a planet must have "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit." I […]

New use for bags

This has been passed around at work, but I’m a little leery of cooking methods that might leach complex molecules into my food. I wondered if oven bags might be more appropriate to the job, but Alcoa has anticipated me, and gives a firm no. And while doing this research, I ran across tasty Cajun […]

I Am the Messenger Review

I Am the Messenger, Zusak. Yes. I have a couple issues with the book. First, it assumes (or perhaps implies) a characteristic of human nature that I am firmly convinced does not exist; second, the writer does a thing that I ordinarily disapprove of. He executes it competently, but it is not necessary to the […]