In the Mail: House of Leaves.

Actual in the mail, too: supposedly House of Leaves is one of those books whose fans insist that it be read in dead-tree form. Supposedly it’s one of those books that will completely blow your mind, man. …Look, I’m not saying that it won’t, sure. I’m sure there are books out there that can. It’s just that I’ve never read one that came even close to duplicating the mind-altering effects of three margaritas in two hours.

So, yeah, kid of jaundiced about these claims.

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Tweet of the Day, You’d Think This Would Be In The Operator’s Manual edition.

Heck, you’d think there would be an Operator’s Manual. For kids, I mean. Nope, they just send you and your spouse home from the hospital with a highly complex, multi-decade project in tow, with nary a bit of real documentation. If you press them, maybe they give you some website links. Maybe.

I meant this as a joke, but now I’m maybe getting a little peeved about this. Or maybe I’m just hungry.

‘March of the Codominium Line Marines’ (Jerry Pournelle)

This is stupidly difficult to find online, so I’m going to fix that now. This was checked against Pournelle’s compilation book Falkenberg’s Legion; there are slightly different versions elsewhere.

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