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Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves: InterWorld (Subterranean Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59606-173-6).

Review can be found here (no, I have not yet quit my day job!).

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What's so hard to understand about Slower Traffic Keep Right?

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After arriving at the company picnic and making one circuit of the grounds, the young lady asked if we could go home yet.

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Somehow I must teach OldDog and NewDog what it means when I have a day off and can "sleep in"!

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I think if I were laying out $1,798.00 for a coffee maker (!!!), I'd expect it to come with a fully-installed firewall.

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Earthrise as seen by JAXA's Selene lunar orbiter. Insert your favorite theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey here.

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Important Notice to Purchasers: The Entire Physical Universe, Including This Product, May One Day Collapse Back into an Infinitesimally Small Space. Should Another Universe Subsequently Reemerge, the Existence of This Product in That Universe Cannot be Guaranteed.

More madness here.

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Signs for the modern age.

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Two hyperactive dogs plus one cranky child equals no coffee in the morning.

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A long time ago I decided Stephen King was a bag of wind and stopped buying his books. Nice to have it confirmed, yet again.

I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.

Hey, Stephen, thanks for supporting the troops! Oh, by the way, you really express your total ignorance of the military here. Moron.

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Mr. Postman brought me books signed by Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves.

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"One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph."

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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I'm in love with Agatha Heterodyne!

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This is pretty nifty. The "missing link" in electronic circuit theory, the memristor, has been invented. Time to re-write all those textbooks!

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Gawd, the female characters in this webcomic are hawt, hawt I tell you!

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Gene Wolfe and Neil Gaiman: A Walking Tour of the Shambles (Little Walks for Sightseers #16) (American Fantasy, 2002, ISBN 0-9610352-6-9; cover art by Gahan Wilson, interior art by Randy Broecker and Earl Geier).

This is a very small book...not sure I'd rate it a book, other than the fact that it is between too covers.

It is also an utterly hilarious book. From the listing of "other books" (all fictional titles) to the amazing sites you'll see in an obscure part of Chicago, to suggestions of what to eat at a restaurant you'll come across on your walking tour...funny stuff. Did you know about the buried Chinese cemetery? How about the tunnels under Lake Michigan? And what about that odd statue with the ruby eye that gets stolen and returns on a regular basis.

Try to find a copy and save your pennies to buy it. Bonus for me, my copy is signed by Wolfe, Gaiman and Wilson (and I'll let you guess which signature I value the most).

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For Father's Day, I gave the young lady a copy of The Daring Book for Girls.

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Father's Day is kind of depressing, given the state of health of my own father.

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Nothing wakes up your day like stepping on a nest of yellow jackets; I think I collected ten stings.

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