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Petzold autograph
When an author gets a book published, the publisher generally gives the author 10 complimentary copies of the book. Usually the author signs these books and gives them to all his friends, but then he has 7 or 8 copies still left over, and these tend to gather dust on the bookshelves of the author's home.
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Frank Conroy on piano playing and the wall
This essay on mistakes has some stuff about playing the piano that inspired me to type in a favorite passage from one of my favorite novels, Frank Conroy's Body and Soul. Claude, the main character, is a young pianist, and Fredericks is his teacher.
One morning in the castle, after a year of lessons, Claude played the Mozart ( Read more... ) -
So it begins ...
I have trouble remembering which is the year and which is the month on credit card expiration dates, but I just got my first credit card (well, since the 90s or 2000) whose 2-digit expiration year is not also a valid month!
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Rhymes with "Trains"
George Reisman on Keynesianism (Capitalism, 1996, p. 867):
In view of the virtually total intellectual capitulation ( Read more... ) -
Best Neal Stephenson Evar!
I finished Anathem a few weeks ago, and as I suspected it's my favorite Neal Stephenson book. There was nothing I didn't like about it. Well, I suppose there was one thing.
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Tittled
Have you ever wondered why those meter readers so seldom ( Read more... )
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