Dear Microsoft Word,
Please stop trying to outsmart me. I promise you that I really want to select the letters I drag the mouse across, and not the surrounding words.
Thanks,
–Brock
This is one reason why journals should not require submissions in MS Word format. Gar.
In an interview with Chris Rose, the son of writer Anne Rice ( a novelist himself ) had this to say when asked about New Orleans’ effect on a person who has lived there:
“To be from New Orleans is to enter into a contract with it, that you will try to articulate its magic to those who are not from there, to those who can’t help but see it through the lens of fantasy and cliché. New Orleans bombards your senses without regard for discretion of gentility, so to have spent any time at all here means you have been branded by its purple sunsets, to have been given memories that, quite simply, could not have been made anywhere else.”
Thanks to my mom for the link to the article.
I’ll pop my head up from working on the paper to share this with you:
For the record, I have a mac like that with the 30″ display at work, and yes, it’s everything it looks like and more.
Thanks to bluekitsune for the link.
The paper’s overdue, which we knew would happen, by a few days. Don’t expect to see/hear much of me tomorrow or Thursday.
As far as I know this is not an April Fool’s joke. The article is two days old, and the patent does apparently exist.
A company called powercast has developed a way to capture energy from radio waves at a variety of frequencies, and to thereby wirelessly power devices. There is huge potential here for the implantable pacemaker/defibrillator business, as the devices currently have to be (surgically) replaced when the batteries run out. I think the current lifetimes are around 10 years.