World-Renowned Theologian Checks In

And will remain anonymous:

Bob, 

You are great. I am impressed with your care in reading my MS, your editing, and your creation of a fantastic index.

Not Helping Matters

Bill Gates: Stay offa my lawn!

Microsoft introduces enhanced research and editing features for Word.

This move will not make for better research or better manuscripts. It will, however, lead to increased plagiarism and more embedded links in Word documents that make my life hell.

Things I Don't Read Every Day

A very short first-person account from the daughter of the gentleman who illustrated Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book. (She was just establishing her parentage. The account had nothing to do with the book.) If I haven't mentioned Abbie Hoffman or Steal This Book yet in my (dear god) going into nine years of this blog [can that be right?], shame on me. Both were very influential on me as a yute. So thanks to the illustrator and his coauthor, and congratulations to his daughter.

I didn't read this book quite as much as Catcher in the Rye, and I'd be curious to see which has held up better over time for me. Having peered through the latter a year or so ago, Mr. Hoffman may be the default winner. I could be wrong.

Dipping My Toe Very Gently into the Antitechnology Pool Again

How can LinkedIn become more irrelevant to me? By looking like Facebook now when I open it. I'm finding that my six friends on Facebook are about two too many. And now every so often when I open LinkedIn, I'm seeing what people are liking who are even more irrelevant to me than the connections I see through Facebook.

People from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta? God help me. I mean, perfectly nice people (most of 'em), but it's odd the memories that are dredged up.

Mazel Tov

Oy, my mother would have been so proud. Finally, one of her sons became a doctor.

Word of the Day

meatspace

noun

[mass noun] informal The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.