A present to him from Gracie Allen…
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Before going to the Discworld convention in Leicestershire the week before last, Peter and I had to stop by the storage where we keep various books, authors’ copies and other stuff that there’s no room for in our house (we were hunting for a specific Terry Pratchett book for the charity auction at the convention). […]

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nk(t+1) — nk(t) = w(k-1)(t)*n(k-1)(t) — wk(t)*nk(t) + sigma(k,1)*u(t)
Or in other words:  Sniping is the best way to win on eBay.
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I’ll be e-mailing everybody about this over the course of the day, but I just wanted to put a note here, since a lot of people seem to read the weblog.
Just so you know — there is a postal dispute going on in Northern Ireland that is affecting shipments of stuff from my eBay store […]

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(sigh) That graphic over there (which occurred to me very early this morning) is the only worthwhile thing I’ve gotten done today. Everything else has been about sick cats. If you’re not a cat person, or feeling sympathetic, skip this blog entry….
Goodman — the all-white cat and the middle-ranked of our three males — found […]

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Late last fall, my literary agent relocated from offices on the upper West Side of Manhattan to new, more spacious quarters down in Chelsea. As usual, there was a fair amount of tidying, and many extra or unneeded copies of books were boxed up and sent off to their respective authors via surface mail.
Late last […]

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