Kevin Drum writes about books that he couldn't finish. I have a few, and they include:
Ulysses is obvious; nobody finishes that thing. I couldn't get into Lot 49. The writing in Middlemarch just crushed me. Light In August... I dunno, too slow. And I don't remember anything about BoC except that it put me off Vonnegut for a decade.
You?
A "small number" of Visa cardholders were surprised to find that recent purchases cost them a little more than expected — $23 quadrillion, plus change.
In New Hampshire, Josh Muszynski said he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and when he later checked his account online found that he had been charged the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500.
Computers are awesome.
I'm preoccupied with the fact that this is my last work week. I feel like I'm going to do so many things once I'm done with this job that I just don't have any desire to do anything until then.
Which is stupid.
But I never claimed to be smart.
To Tanya Donnely:
And to Woody Guthrie:
It's back, and as random as ever...
Woah. Random. Yay.
What you got?
Tricksey reallllly likes to lick last night's scotch glass.