Well, well, well. Cory Doctorow weighs in with a blistering Why None Of My Books Are Available on Audible: And why Amazon owes me $3,128.55, which, deliciously, is available on Audible. Doesn’t help me in my desire to listen to Elie Mystal’s Allow me to Retort, but does make me even keener to...
This morning, I brought in a 2006 item about the world record for speed harvesting wheat. In the course of checking old links, I discovered they’re still at it, most recently in 2018, at least as far as I can tell.
Philip Robertson, Guinness World Record Adjudicator, calls the day “an extrao...
Terrific read on the need for self-promotion from Herbert Liu (linked by the always interesting Tim Prebble). I'm squarely in the I shouldn’t have to do this and it sucks and I’m lousy at it anyway camp. I also know full well that I need to get over that. But there’s also a part of me that tacitly thinks along these lines, which Liu quotes from a commenter.
Looking down on people for “shameless self promotion” means that you only want art from people privileged enough to have a job that can support it, or that are passionate enough to make significant sacrifices to their quality of life.
Damn, damn, damn. My PKMS1 seems to have let me down again. I wanted to retrieve a piece I read recently — within the past 6 weeks? — and was certain I had noted, to the effect that the author had been advised that for any really difficult choice or decision, it makes no difference what you choose...
On a whim, encouraged by having solved a particularly nasty case of cable noise on a new microphone1, I dusted off an old tube headphone amp. The dust had accumulated over the years since I abandoned the amp because of a nasty, persistent, somewhat high-pitched buzz. Well, blow me if the buzz h...
