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.
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.
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.
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
(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 