Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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Things to write with

  1. Ball point pen
  2. Quill pen
  3. Chisel and stone
  4. Fountain pen
  5. Your own blood
  6. Spray paint
  7. Crayola crayon
  8. #2 pencil
  9. Nib pen
  10. Sharpie
  11. Shoe polish

JUST MARRIED!

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Things to write with

  1. Ball point pen
  2. Quill pen
  3. Chisel and stone
  4. Fountain pen
  5. Your own blood
  6. Spray paint
  7. Crayola crayon
  8. #2 pencil
  9. Nib pen
  10. Sharpie
  11. Shoe polish
  12. Rapidograph pen
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Things to write with

  1. Ball point pen
  2. Quill pen
  3. Chisel and stone
  4. Fountain pen
  5. Your own blood
  6. Spray paint
  7. Crayola crayon
  8. #2 pencil
  9. Nib pen
  10. Sharpie
  11. Shoe polish
  12. Typewriter
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Things to write with

  1. Ball point pen
  2. Quill pen
  3. Chisel and stone
  4. Fountain pen
  5. Your own blood
  6. Spray paint
  7. Crayola crayon
  8. #2 pencil
  9. Nib pen
  10. Sharpie
  11. Shoe polish
  12. Typewriter
  13. Bullets

Pass.

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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
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Used to be that railroads were quite scrupulous about removing the graffiti from their railcars at first, but they seem to have gottten pretty laissez faire about it over the past couple of decades. I suspect are three factors that have combined to cause this:

  1. Graffiti has become more accepted as “urban art”. Who’d have thunk that, using only a rattle-can and some stencils, the creations of a dude named “Banksie” would become works sought after and commanding prices comparable to an undiscovered Rembrandt or Picasso? Although I will admit that some of the work I’ve seen passing by while stopped at the RR crossing in town are quite impressive.
  2. It’s a Sisyphean task to try to stay ahead of the v̶a̶n̶d̶a̶l̶s – sorry, ‘artists’ along the thousands of miles of siding and railroad yards, who seem to be able to work with relative impunity anyway.
  3. It costs money to clean and repaint the rolling stock, and the railcar is out of service and not producing any revenue during this process. I’m sure that at some board of directors’ meeting, someone pointed out this cost and noted that “if someone else wants to paint our freight cars for us, at their own expense, why not let them?”

And the model railroad industry has not ignored this, either. In the interest of realism, several companies are now offering equipment for ones’ personal layout that come ‘weathered’ as if to simulate several years of service and benign neglect, including graffiti artwork.

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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett

His penultimate work, I read it with a bit of a heavy heart, knowing full well that there will be no further additions to the Discworld canon now that Sir Terry has passed over and is hob-nobbing with my friend Katherine.

-“BB”-

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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Eagle Has Flown, by Jack Higgins

A very disappointing sequel to a much better book, The Eagle Has Landed.

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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Eagle Has Flown, by Jack Higgins
  6. Last Train to Toronto, by Terry Pindell
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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Eagle Has Flown, by Jack Higgins
  6. Last Train to Toronto, by Terry Pindell
  7. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Eagle Has Flown, by Jack Higgins
  6. Last Train to Toronto, by Terry Pindell
  7. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  8. 1984, by George Orwell
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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Eagle Has Flown, by Jack Higgins
  6. Last Train to Toronto, by Terry Pindell
  7. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  8. 1984, by George Orwell
  9. The Complaints, by Ian Rankin
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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Eagle Has Flown, by Jack Higgins
  6. Last Train to Toronto, by Terry Pindell
  7. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  8. 1984, by George Orwell
  9. The Complaints, by Ian Rankin
  10. Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

An old favorite. I wanted to look at one scene in it last night but ended up rereading the whole thing.

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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Eagle Has Flown, by Jack Higgins
  6. Last Train to Toronto, by Terry Pindell
  7. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  8. 1984, by George Orwell
  9. The Complaints, by Ian Rankin
  10. Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
  11. Along Came A Spider by James Patterson
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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Eagle Has Flown, by Jack Higgins
  6. Last Train to Toronto, by Terry Pindell
  7. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  8. 1984, by George Orwell
  9. The Complaints, by Ian Rankin
  10. Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
  11. Along Came A Spider by James Patterson
  12. Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed

A brand new YA novel, about educational inequality in Pakistan; I raced through it this morning

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The Last Book You Read

  1. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell.
  2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King
  3. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
  4. Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Eagle Has Flown, by Jack Higgins
  6. Last Train to Toronto, by Terry Pindell
  7. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  8. 1984, by George Orwell
  9. The Complaints, by Ian Rankin
  10. Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
  11. Along Came A Spider by James Patterson
  12. Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed
  13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Video games with strong female characters

  1. Beyond Good and Evil - Jade
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Video games with strong female characters

  1. Beyond Good and Evil - Jade
  2. Ms. Pac-Man – the eponymous dot-muncher

-“BB”-

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Video games with strong female characters

  1. Beyond Good and Evil - Jade
  2. Ms. Pac-Man – the eponymous dot-muncher
  3. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego - the title character
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Video games with strong female characters

  1. Beyond Good and Evil - Jade
  2. Ms. Pac-Man – the eponymous dot-muncher
  3. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego - the title character
  4. Street Fighter – Chun Li

-“BB”-