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?
Thursday, March 28, 2013
1/180 ???
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?
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Rereading "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" by Cordwainer Smith.
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 remembered the story intensely, but 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 have an amazing poetic liveness: "The Dead Lady of Clown Town", "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard", "Scanners Live in Vain", "The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-At-All".
http://www.amazon.com/Rediscovery-Man-Complete-Science-Cordwainer/dp/0915368560/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362700388&sr=1-1&keywords=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 remembered the story intensely, but 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 have an amazing poetic liveness: "The Dead Lady of Clown Town", "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard", "Scanners Live in Vain", "The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-At-All".
http://www.amazon.com/Rediscovery-Man-Complete-Science-Cordwainer/dp/0915368560/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362700388&sr=1-1&keywords=cordwainer+smith
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Gunnerkrigg Court
Gunnerkrigg Court -- one of the most beautifully drawn web comics: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1159
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1159
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1159
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Nexus 7, RIP
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?
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?
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