Well, I finally did it. The inevitable event has a occurred. Today I purchased my first iPad.
I’d like to present you with a completely fair and unbiased review of my new product, but I can’t. I’m happy to admit my limitations in this matter. Unlike most humans, I’d hate to delude myself into thinking I can be clear-minded when I am simply moonstruck my the sweet glow of my new Apple product.
It’s imbued with a fulgent technological beauty. When you touch it, it’s like being pulled into a great masterpiece …

After successfully sending their friend back into prehistory via microwave time and space travel, IB and Spacebear try to readapt to office life without Dino.

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Tomorrow sees the state-side release of David Mitchell’s fifth novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet.  It marks the author’s first real journey into the sometimes thorny world of historical fiction.  Apart from a short treatment of the Falklands War in the semi-autobiographical bildungsroman Black Swan Green, Mitchell tends to consider the real world’s history malleable and sometimes sloughs it completely in favor of complex nested realities, as in Cloud Atlas.  A follower of Mitchell’s might consider this new work a strange undertaking, but thankfully, Mitchell has completely forgone the …