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Well, the book-buying restriction didn't last long. Longer than I expected, but not as long as I'd hoped to be able to hold out. Oops.

I swear I just went in to pick up a physical copy of Tom Limoncelli's Time Management for System Administrators, that's all. But see, there was a "new paperback" display in the front of the store, and a stumbled-upon table of "buy two, get one free" books, and it was all downhill from there. I ended up with:

* Time Management for System Administrators, Tom Limoncelli
* Ajax in Action, Dave Crane
* D.C. Noir, George Pelecanos
* The Geographer's Library, Jon Fasman
* Coyote Blue, Christopher Moore
* I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away, Bill Bryson
[Edit:]
* Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Annie Proulx. This is the one I couldn't remember, which is particularly sad because it's the one I'm currently reading. *facepalm*

At least I left with the book I came in for along with the other stuff, which doesn't always happen.

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Via several people on my reading list:

Isaac Hayes quits "South Park" because of its "inappropriate ridicule" of religion, by which of course he means Scientology and not any of the other religions that they've been making fun of for ten years.

I only wish this one was mine

In a dream...
Originally uploaded by thepres6.

I decided to set up a Flickr account for the heck of it, and this was the very first photo I ran across. Sadly, it's not mine. The poster has several other really nice photos posted in his sets.

Am I the only one who gets half a page of empty space in people's Flickr posts on LJ?

Music-related PSA

The music schedule for SXSW is up (that link is for Wednesday, follow the links at the top for the other days), and a huge number of artists have mp3s available for download.