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Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Thoughts both confusing and enlightening.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Thoughts both confusing and enlightening.

Book sale haul

elbeno, 2 December, 200629 July, 2007

Today was (is) the quarterly Culver City Library book sale. $15 got us:

The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base
How The Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
3 Hardy Boys Books: The House on the Cliff (2), Hunting for Hidden Gold (5), The Mystery of Cabin Island (8)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Armchair Universe: An Exploration of Computer Worlds by A.K. Dewdney
The Turing Omnibus: 61 Excursions in Computer Science by A.K. Dewdney
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence by I. Bratko
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Idoru by William Gibson
John Betjeman’s Collected Poems

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