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Whew. I just saved out and backed up the final PDFs for Carl & Jerry Volume 4. Did the whole thing from a dead stop (including scanning all 24 stories out of the old magazines) in fifteen days flat. Of course, that entailed pushing aside everything else (including some paying work) and doing ( Read more... )

• I was doing some keyword browsing on Lulu, and happened upon this book. I'm not sure what it's about; it might be a novel about someone working in a Parisian lingerie shop...but look closely at the book's list of keywords.
• From the "What are the chances?" ( Read more... )

Carl & Jerry fans have been beating my door down wanting to know where Volume 4 is, and so I've been spending all spare cycles on getting the book done in time for release by Halloween. I have all the story text scanned in and OCRed, and now I'm doing the edit pass on the text, fixing OCR ( Read more... )

• There's an ancient and (from all appearances) abandoned German cemetery at the southeast corner of Rand Road and Golf Road in Des Plaines, just northwest of Chicago. I passed it on my walk yesterday, and took ten minutes to walk the rows and look for any familiar names. I ( Read more... )

• Don Lancaster wrote to say that Carl and Jerry were not the first to build a house-current hot-dog cooker. Don built a couple when he was in high school, and said that it was a pretty common school shop project in the shop books back in 1954.
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• My hosting service disabled exec() server-wide the other day, and without exec() my installation of Gallery is mostly useless. I can't install new photos nor modify existing ones. Sectorlink doesn't really have much in the line of suggestions, but I have to wonder what ( Read more... )

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Odd words pop up in odd places. While I was building the Carl & Jerry story index, I read all 119 of the stories in the space of a couple of weeks. The text was not fantastic, and I decided not to soften its quirky nature except to eliminate genuine typos or gross grammatical errors. The ( Read more... )

I'm behind on the third volume of Carl and Jerry: Their Complete Adventures, though there's some sparse chance I may still get it mounted on Lulu before the end of May. The 24 stories in the volume (the years 1959 and 1960) have all been scanned and OCRed. The text has been cleaned up and laid ( Read more... )