- “Work’s for Squares.” The (unsurprising?) decline of labor-force participation.
- But on the good side of that subject … Wally Conger reviews my How to Kill the Job Culture despite the fact that it’s been out of print for several years. Hm. If I can find those old files or get somebody to OCR the book for me, maybe a Kindle edition is in order?
- Ken at Popehat says yes, there is more to that incident of the teacher arrested over his SF novels. Ken also opens with the best description of media-cop relations I’ve ever read. (H/T jed in comments)
- Making the rounds today: Video of a polite young man shutting down cops who demand to search his home.
- Eichmann: still evil but perhaps not so banal.
- Same old story, same old song. Once again everybody’s a “terrorist” except of course the actual terrorists. (per Shel in comments)
- Economics as explained by The Simpsons. I’m not sure whether it’s a bad thing or a good thing that somebody proposes to teach economic principles this way in college.
- Not being urban, I hadn’t heard of the phenomenon of turning HOV lanes into toll lanes for those prosperous enough to pay for better “highway service.” Figures that Robert Poole (who loves all things “privatization” even when they’re really just all things crony capitalist) would be for it and agin’ the activists opposing it.
A Kindle version of How to Kill the Job Culture is a great idea.
Kindle is a good venue for funny cartoons & images– something that would naturally tie in with that subject.
Best of all, the photos of Charlie Chaplin are no longer covered by copyright laws.
I read the review of “How to kill the Job Culture”. A Kindle version is definitly in order. I’ll buy a copy.
Thank you, JimWarmke. 🙂 Thank you also to P., who emailed an offer to get the book OCR’d if I can’t find the original files.
First step would be to ensure that I have the rights back from the publisher. My original contract with Loompanics specified that after six months out of print, the rights would be mine again. When Paladin took over the book, I signed a new contract with them (primarily to add e-rights) that doesn’t mention rights reversion.
So anyhow, I’ve asked Paladin & we’ll see.
SAF takeover of JPFO public news now – 45mins ago on the Facebook
didigavid — Thank you (and sigh). It appears the other shoe has finally dropped. I’ll go see what I can see. To the best of my knowledge, none of JPFO’s contractors, members, or supporters was given the news in advance.
I’ve been having an ongoing conversation with Doug Schuett this morning of the rights to some of my works, and even he hasn’t mentioned that the deal is done and being announced.
Which would be pretty typical of the way this whole mess has been handled.
-sigh- Well, we knew it was going to happen.
My brief take.
While I now expect JPFO to dry up and blow away — living on only in billions of SAF/CCRKBA snailmail flyers — I’ll watch and hope for more. I will not spend a devalued zincky on JPFO unless I see it truly continuing Aaron’s legacy.
With Print On Demand from Lulu and Amazon Create Space, there never should be a book “out of print”?
The lowest price on Amazon is more than $30 plus shipping.
I’ve bought print-on-demand books. Some were paginated poorly. I’m not sure how you can control for that. I have a HC of Anything Peaceful. I bought a new (pod) copy for my kids to read while we traveled. The pagination was off enough I decided I couldn’t trust that it was intact. Sad.
As a rule, for books that matter, I look for old hardcovers or other “real” books. That ebooks and pod books can be constantly edited is a negative to me. I want to know my kids are learning from the same stories and words we did.
Otoh, given the options, please do get your book back out there. People are searching more and more for help and ideas as the given ideas fail. Plus with your active blogging peers spreading the word, it might bring in some scratch and that’s always a good thing!
Work’s for squares: Maybe a lot of men in that age cohort read “How to Kill the Job Culture”. 🙂
I was not aware of that book, but would buy it for my Kindle if you get it up. It sounds like a very useful book to have out there for people who might be out of work.
I was (barely) in that age cohort when I retired. My wife wanted to work a lot more than I did, and anyway how much does one need to live? Any additional income would just go to the federal govt – guess what, taxes are a disincentive to work. We wanted to homeschool our boy – guess what, rotten government indoctrination centers are a disincentive to work. I had worked exclusively in small tech firms until IBM took the last one over – guess what, becoming a cog in a massive corporate wheel is a disincentive to work, for someone who didn’t have to do that previously.
Anyway I am pleased that people find ways to live outside the government/corporate job culture. Black market, anyone? 🙂
Shutting down cops: good on that young man. Inviting cops into your home is madness; nothing good is going to happen if you do that. Although I have to say, requiring a warrant is hardly any kind of protection since so many judges are warrant mills. When the revolution comes there by rights ought not to be cops, let alone warrants.
The actual terrorists: the reason Muslim terrorism is not included in that report is that Muslim terrorism is not a threat to the federal government. Instead, it is a tool of the federal government. It makes perfect sense if you look at it from the right point of view, that of the ruling class.
“HOT” lanes: This reminds me a bit of so-called “libertarian” think tanks (like Cascade Policy Institute) advocating “congestion pricing” by tracking the movements of all vehicles. Hey, nothing could go wrong with that, could it?
My novel is POD. (Almost all small-press novels are.) I’ve received two bad copies; one fell apart, the other had about 50 pages of someone else’s work included firmly in the middle. That gives me an error rate of less than 1%.
Everybody Knows the first Fort Hood shooting was Routine Workplace Violence. The PTB sez so.
And Everytown sez the guy who blew up the marathon should be remembered as a Victim Of Gun Violence.
FBI isn’t going to argue with that.
Art done by a man with palsy. Only has use of one finger. http://sfglobe.com/?id=12535&src=fbfan_12535