short takes
A random observation while leaving Pennsic: many drivers appear
not to understand the basic etiquette of simultaneous left turns.
Suppose you're at a four-way intersection (sans signal) trying to make a left
turn, and the guy on the cross street to your left is also trying
to make a left turn. If you let him go first, he will block oncoming
traffic for you and you can slip your turn in behind his; meanwhile you are
blocking oncoming traffic from his right in your lane so that he
only has to worry about that oncoming traffic coming toward
you. You both win. If, instead, you rush through the intersection
ahead of him, you get your turn and he's out of luck because of the
traffic behind you. Why don't more drivers understand this?
It took me more than five minutes to make the left turn out of
Cooper's Lake onto Rt. 422 (a 55-mile-per-hour road) during which time
three drivers screwed this up.
Amazon is now starting to sell short electronic texts (2-10k words) for order of 50 cents a pop (though I can't now find that price info on their site, so I don't remember why I know this). It's called Amazon shorts. I gather that they're mainly targeting established authors (short stories? essays?), but it sounds like they'll consider anyone. I find myself wondering if there is a class of content that I could provide that people would pay fractions of dollars for. (I don't know how much of that 50 cents the author gets, mind.) It's probably not worth the hassle for a new author unless you're working toward a book and want to build some buzz, but even so I find the idea interesting. (I probably got this link from tangerinpenguin.)
St. Augustine on intelligent design (from siderea).
Rob at Unspace has an interesting entry on faith that rings true for me. "So, I live sort of an inverse of Pascal's famous wager. But if I am wrong, and there is no God, I won't have many regrets. My life has been better because I believe in Him."
Amazon is now starting to sell short electronic texts (2-10k words) for order of 50 cents a pop (though I can't now find that price info on their site, so I don't remember why I know this). It's called Amazon shorts. I gather that they're mainly targeting established authors (short stories? essays?), but it sounds like they'll consider anyone. I find myself wondering if there is a class of content that I could provide that people would pay fractions of dollars for. (I don't know how much of that 50 cents the author gets, mind.) It's probably not worth the hassle for a new author unless you're working toward a book and want to build some buzz, but even so I find the idea interesting. (I probably got this link from tangerinpenguin.)
St. Augustine on intelligent design (from siderea).
Rob at Unspace has an interesting entry on faith that rings true for me. "So, I live sort of an inverse of Pascal's famous wager. But if I am wrong, and there is no God, I won't have many regrets. My life has been better because I believe in Him."