March 2011
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To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish: The...
I’ve lately been thinking that I should upload something on the Smashwords that all the kids are talking about. This is a site that facilitates e-publishing. You upload a file formatted in the necessary way and soon your book is for sale on Amazon, Apple’s iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, and so forth. It seems like another plank in the platform: website, check; blog, check; Facebook,...
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My Job Interview with Garrison Keillor
There’s been a lot of media coverage of Garrison Keillor’s comments on retirement this week, so it seemed like a good time to share my Keillor story. I started listening to him in seventh grade or so. That was back when he still did a morning show during the week in addition to the Saturday broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion. I would set my alarm earlier so I’d get to listen...
Plus, it gets you free cable . . . in your head!
One expects a certain amount of puffery in ads, of course, but there’s a line between puffery and physically impossible bullshit, if I may use the technical term. Lately I became aware of a company called Phiten, and its claims about their product Aqua-Titaniumtm: In nature, titanium is not a soluble material. However, by utilizing the high-intensity Phild Process, Phiten scientists are able...
