At the bottom of the page, it says: “1/180″… 180 pages of dense legalese. Aside from the sheer humor value, does this constitute an unenforceable shrink-wrap agreement?
At the bottom of the page, it says: “1/180”.
Rereading “The Ballad of Lost C’Mell” by Cordwainer Smith.
Smith didn’t write many stories, but they linger in my mind far more than most. The first one I remember reading was “No, No, Not Rogov!” — I forgot where I read it, or who the author was. “Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons” was the same — the story burned itself into my memory, but I couldn’t remember where I read it or who it was by.
A couple of years ago the mystery resolved: there’s a book that reprints his complete short works. Some of the titles are so poetic: “The Dead Lady of Clown Town”, “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard”, “Scanners Live in Vain”, “The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-At-All”.
Gunnerkrigg Court
Gunnerkrigg Court — one of the most beautifully drawn web comics: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1159
Hmm. Obama vs Rubio
Obama’s speech was competent, Rubio’s response was unexpectedly weak, both in presentation and content…
RIP nexus 7
Pulled my nexus 7 out of my gym bag and opened the cover to find the screen festooned with a thick spiderweb of cracks. The screen lights up with no flaws in the image, but the touch response is gone. I can’t even acknowledge the “OK” to power it off.
The gym bag was just clothes and notebooks, but it was in a place where other people could dump stuff on it. Someone must have hit it hard, or sat on it, or something.
A quick search indicates that there isn’t really a cost-effective way to repair it; has anyone used an old 8G model as a source of spare parts?
Bird Rescue
Paul McCartney is doing my dishes…
Wet cat
Stuck in the rain for too long…
Bumper sticker of the day
“Breastfeeding for all, circumcision for none”.