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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Sunday
Weekend Notes
Buy Harry Potter from an independent bookstore!
The larger problem with Harry is that monster retailers are using him as a loss-leader to bring people in the door, sometimes with a retail price so low it’s lower than the wholesale price offered to smaller booksellers.
What to do???
I saw an interesting woodworking tool on the ‘Bay today. It looks period for colgaffneyis and the buy-it-now price is not bad–$42. I don’t have anything like it. It is being sold by a reputable dealer–I have bought tools from him before.
Just one thing. It is 190 years old, a good ways toward actually being period. Is it OK to buy something that old and actually use it? It is in good shape, just needs some sharpening. I am not going to buy it just to hang on the wall. There is no modern replica available.
I happily use a couple planes and drills that are 80-90 years old, but adding a century seems like a stretch.
I have to make up my mind in the next three hours.
One Way of Looking at it
March 15, 2008–St. Patrick’s Day!
“I consider this a hate crime.”
Hummer Owner Gets Angry Message via Beaten to death: a Hummer in a Prius neighborhood
I suppose I should feel outraged about this, one way or the other, but I actually think it is rather funny.
Commuting Trick
As I wrote Friday, I had to work until 4 PM that day, and so was late to Gaeltacht Minnesota‘s Weekend in Winona. I would have been even later, except for some planning ahead. Continue reading
Coming Soon to a Computer Near You
(If you let this monster in, you really cannot call it your computer any more)
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems. Via Slashdot.
A great argument for open-source software!
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 