Monthly Archives: April 2004

Faster Reading

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Very much faster then I have been. Eugene Volokh has already finished Stephenson’s The Confusion.
I’m still crawling through Quicksilver which I have been enjoying for much longer then I anticipated as noted here. In fact I’ve been enjoying Quicksilver enough that I already have The Confusion waiting on the bookshelf (I wanted needed to have a 1st edition).
I’d feel bad if my only reading over the past year had been several hundred pages of Quicksilver but I’ve been able to sneak in other reading at the rate of about 1 book for every 9 pages of Quicksilver and, of course, uncounted blog postings.
Update: Via Catallarchy a pointer to this Salon interview with Neal Stephenson (I had to visit a one screen add to get to the premium content).

The Tangled Bank

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Interested in biology, natural schience or medicine? Then take a look at The Tangled Bank. From PZ Myers’ introduction:

In cooperation with several other of us geeky science types, I am pleased to announce our own version of the “Carnival of the Vanities”….
Two things will distinguish us from the original “Carnival of the Vanities”: 1) we are specifically restricting ourselves to articles in the field of science and medicine, very broadly defined, and 2) we’ve got a different name.

PZ Meyers is hosting the first edition at Pharyngula.

Pricing Gas

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Via Scott here is a map of gasoline prices populated with blogger provided info. I note that the price recently posted for Houston is only $1.60/gallon.
I often use gasbuddy to find a low price. Their Houston page shows someone paying 1.55/Gal as recently as last night.
Last week in Canada I paid $0.855(Can)/Liter which works out to about $2.36(US)/gal at the then current exchange rate. I made sure I arrived back in the states with a near empty tank so I could pay $1.989(US)/gal and was quite happy.