I'm not sure how I feel about this...

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Review: Revolution in the Valley

Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How The Mac Was Made by Andy Hertzfeld.

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All in all, it's a very entertaining read for anybody who's interested in the Mac as a computer or in Apple as a company.

why I'm an academic...

me + academic search premier = lots of downloads (not all of them related to what I'm actually searching for)

I need a personal librarian...

I keep misplacing articles. Fortunately just about everything I use is available online, but it's still annoying to have to go back and relocate and reprint it. And I know that as soon as I do that, I'm going to FIND the articles. I need some lackey to catalog all of my stuff and keep it organized for me. Follow me around picking up pieces of paper I leave lying around and putting them where I'll be able to find them the next time I need them.

On the other hand, I've now got things set up so that I can print duplex with a minimum of fuss (still a two-step process, but a simple one).

For all the academics:

Professor Pressured To Sleep With Student For Good Course Evaluation

Ooof.

We got a break in the drizzle that has predominated here for the last several days - a break long enough for the grass to dry out AND for me to mow the lawn. Hooray! The lawn is in a very odd state... until this week, it had been very dry here, so it's getting brown and sad-looking. So we'd been watering, but watering has the annoying effect of making it, y'know, grow, which just makes us need to mow it. *shakes head* Anyway. Now it's done. And I need a cold drink. At least I got my exercise for the day (if I hadn't mowed, I was going to walk to the drug store to get calamine lotion for TRex's bug bites).