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Yes, I really love the whole plane section of the book (which is most of the chapters we read this week).

5 days ago on 'Cat's Cradle': discussion, Chapters 30 through 60

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Haha! Welcome!

9 days ago on 'Cat's Cradle': discussion, Chapters 30 through 60

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:(

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/9/4411634/author-iain-banks-dies-at-59

11 days ago on Iain M. Banks diagnosed with late stage cancer

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11 days ago on What are you currently reading?

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Screwed — but not terribly so! Update: I finished my fiction reorganizing through the letter “E” today — and catalogued each book as I went in Google Docs. I did about 250 of them, and the whole thing took a few hours. Since I only overhaul once every few years, I don’t mind. Of course, I’m also doing a lot of other things as I go: dusting, putting new plastic covers on them, reading them…

11 days ago on What is the best way to catalogue your library if you're a book collector?

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I think the funniest stuff in the book is definitely yet to come (I’ve read the next quarter and it got a few chuckles out of me).

11 days ago on 'Cat's Cradle' by Kurt Vonnegut: discussion, Chapters 1 through 29

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And, here is a great nod to her greatness, on her birthday: http://www.theawl.com/2013/05/the-first-century-of-marvelous-spinster-barbara-pym

11 days ago on Who are your favorite female authors?

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Also, also, also! I am reading Excellent Women by Barbara Pym right now and it is HILARIOUS and perfect. I love it SO much I cannot recommend it more highly than I am right now: READ THIS BOOK! :D

11 days ago on Who are your favorite female authors?

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I do love Flannery O’Connor. Wise Blood is one of my favorite books. I haven’t read it in years, though!

11 days ago on Who are your favorite female authors?

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I finished last week, and I really, really enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. The bit where Neuromancer / Wintermute suggest near the end that they’ve found another AI out in space to communicate with is… intriguing to say the least. I’ll definitely re-read it because I feel like there was so much going on to take in that I wasn’t properly acclimated as I was going until the end. So much of it was foreign, but Gibson’s way of describing things is really original and detailed. I want to read Burning Chrome now, for sure!

11 days ago on Neuromancer, Chapters 19 through end: Patterns

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Oh, I remember what the problem was now: Delicious Library is a Mac only product. While I DO have a MacBook, I use an Android phone and would definitely want access to the library on my phone :(

12 days ago on What is the best way to catalogue your library if you're a book collector? 1 reply

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I know! I hope those 4 early birds get their stuff :(

12 days ago on Did the NSA have this PRISM t-shirt removed from Zazzle? 1 reply 2 recommends

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Yeah, this looks pretty good! I’m going to give this a shot too. I know we used it years and years ago but this looks like it’s advanced a lot since then. Thanks!

12 days ago on What is the best way to catalogue your library if you're a book collector? 1 reply

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So as I said in my post many of the books I have will need to be entered manually, and that is kind of a big pain on Goodreads and Library Thing, iirc. Also, Library Thing treats a book — Jane Eyre — as one work — not distinct works — for a book I have 20 or so copies of. Does that make sense?

13 days ago on What is the best way to catalogue your library if you're a book collector? 1 reply

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I think I’m going to go with… gasp… a spreadsheet. I’m not kidding! It’s manual, and will be slow starting, but it seems like my best option!

13 days ago on What is the best way to catalogue your library if you're a book collector? 2 replies

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Bloomberg’s administration also won a ruling today from the state’s highest court in Albany allowing car services to pick up passengers who hail them outside of Manhattan. Only yellow cabs had been permitted to pick up fares on the street, while car services were limited to pre-arranged dispatched calls.

13 days ago on Court rules NYC taxis can be hailed using smartphone apps

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13 days ago on 'SimCity' for Mac delayed until August 1 reply 2 recommends

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:(

13 days ago on 'SimCity' for Mac delayed until August 2 recommends

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It’s actually not been legal to hail car service cars on the street in the outer boroughs — only yellow cabs can pick up passengers that way. Today’s ruling would change that. Of course, everyone already does it!

http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/2012rulebook_ch82_prom.pdf

13 days ago on Court rules NYC taxis can be hailed using smartphone apps 2 replies

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Sorry I meant car services. Fixed!

13 days ago on Court rules NYC taxis can be hailed using smartphone apps