- That FBI agent who was just a dancin’ and a backflippin’ and a shootin’ in a bar … gets probation. Figures, dunnit?
- Independent booksellers are making a comeback, while ebook sales slip. Yes, it’s nice to hold a physical book in your hands and to shop in an intimate little book store.
- Never owned a bump stock? Think the new fiat against them is no big deal? Here’s why it’s a very damned big deal for all owners of semiauto firearms.
- Science! Discovers that a parachute is no more effective than a regular backpack when you jump out of an airplane! 🙂 (Yes, there’s both a catch and a point.)
- I suspect that this science is a bit self-serving, too. But having spent time in the early world of psychedelics, I don’t doubt the truth of these findings. (But how the heck does one measure “wisdom”?) (H/T Shel)
- After the Great Recession, the monetary base never returned to “normal.” (Geeky, but pertinent.)
- Did you know the U.S. has 161 volcanoes? Many of them are more dangerous than we might realize.
- Test your knowledge of American incarceration. A cool interactive that works even on my overly secured browser.
- Just an FYI: Not all the “thieves” in the glitter-bomb anti-theft video were really thieves. Apparently not the device creator’s doing. He’s more upset than anybody and has removed 90 seconds of footage.
- Memes of wisdom for responsible individuals.
Dancing idiot: I’m wondering how the FBI will get around the fact that he’s now a prohibited person under 18 USC 922.
Bump-fire: I’ve been trying to explain those issues for more than a year, and getting told I’m wrong. Only now that the rule has been signed are more folks going, “Whoa waitaminnt…” At least the ones who aren’t still telling me this is Trump’s art of the deal.
Trump has done more for gun control than Obama ever did and he’s only been in for a couple of years yet so we should all expect the best is yet to come.
I think one of the problems with E-books is that they are generally still priced too high. I can understand it for brand new books, but for books that have been out for a while, especially quite a while, their prices need to come down. I’ve seen some books published in the 80’s going for what the new books go for now, which means, the old ones are now priced higher than what they went for originally.
How does that makes sense? And please don’t tell me they have to be digitized, the publishers have basically been requiring writers to submit e-files of their books for some time now.
FYI, I have now become a fan of both. Both have their pros and cons.
Yes, it’s nice to hold a book in my hands – like Kelley & Firestein’s Textbook of Rheumatology. Although, I generally only hold half of it in my hands at once – since its 2,070 pages are split into two volumes. Great book. I vastly prefer a physical book to an ebook.
Just glad none of those volcanoes are in Texas.
Sorry, Claire. Hope all of yours stay quiet.
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