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Odd Lots
- Anger makes you stupid. Politics makes you angry. Do the math. (Thanks to Bob Trembley for the link.)
- Running across George O. Smith's books while redistributing titles on one of my shelves led me to look for the most powerful vacuum tube ever produced commercially. This was the understated Eimac 8974, which contains its own vacuum pump and could ( Read more... )
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- More or less recovered here, but oboy, do I have some catching up to do...
- Those Parallels guys are now installing dicey stuff allthehellover the disks of user Macs. They do it in connection with their poorly received Parallels Access product, and they do it whether or not you use Parallels Access. In other words, they're preinstalling DRM for a ( Read more... )
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- Have been grumpy and researching boring things lately. But leaf by niggle, the Odd Lots pile continues to grow. So you get two running.
- The Perseids are coming up. The peak will occur the night of August 11-12, but look toward the northeast after midnight any night before then (and for a few days after) and you'll see a few. People are posting ( Read more... )
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- Ars has the best article I've yet seen on the recent ruling in the Apple ebook price fixing trial. Insight: Publishers get less under agency than they do under wholesale, but they're willing to accept it to keep control of pricing. Book publishing is a freaky business. This may not work out as planned for the publishers.
- Also from Ars: Weird search ( Read more... )
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- May 1 here in the Springs will see a high of 36, and a low of 16...with 2-4 inches of snow likely. I'm thinking I'm going to have to drain the sprinkler system yet again.
- The end must be near: Jeff spent some time fooling with a Samsung ATIV running Windows 8...and was impressed. It's a 12" tablet with a dockable keyboard, not unlike a bigger ( Read more... )
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- Egad. No, egad squared: A major literary agency has asked to see the full manuscript of Ten Gentle Opportunities. The novel is done, but I still have to format it for submission and write the synopsis and logline. I'm going to be busy for a few days, that is fersure.
- IBM is taking a new slant on fluidic computers, one that operates via charged ( Read more... )
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- My four-year-old niece Julie is working on a pair of roller skates...built from the Lego set we gave her for Christmas. Somewhere her engineer grandfather is smiling.
- Stay up too late and damage your genes. You cannot win by shorting sleep. Somebody, somewhere may be able to survive on five hours a night. It almost certainly isn't you. (Thanks to ( Read more... )
