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[jazzfish]

Primates: ". . . the death of Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiach, Primate of [All] Ireland. The newscaster asked some talking head whether he preferred to remember the Cardinal as a man or a primate."

Contact juggling: this guy's pretty good. [via sir_alf]

It's not so much that Pete Townshend has a blog, it's what he put in the "About Me" section of it.

I won a copy of matociquala's new short-story collection in a contest sponsored by AbeBooks. It should be on its way this weekend. And I read Megan Whalen Turner's The King of Attolia yesterday and I can only say "This is awesome" so many times before it loses all meaning, and I have finally started reading those books about the wizard kid that people gush so much about.

Other than that I'm . . . not exactly depressed, just numb. Tell me about something awesome that's happened to you lately.

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[jazzfish]

My Cryptonomicon Rant

I read Crypto about a year after it came out. For the first two-thirds I was hooked. "This is brilliant!" I said. "There are all these wonderfully disparate plotlines, and new bits keep getting dropped in here and there. It's going to be marvelous watching him tie all these together at the end!" At about that point I suddenly realised that he wasn't going to tie them all together. And indeed he didn't: he tied up one of the past plotlines, and the rather boring present-day plotline, and the rest just sort of petered out. Bleh.

(I'm still tired most of the time but other than that I'm doing much better, thanks.)