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Monday, January 19, 2004
 

I finished Prey by Michael Crichton.

It was lame in the beginning, okay in the middle (decent science, slow progressive revelation) and just plain stupid at the end. Crichton wrote so much better in his earlier days. The Great Train Robbery is a fantastic book. Jurassic Park rocks. Ever since he got into scandals and affairs (Airframe, Timeline, Prey), his books have really sucked.

Now I'm reading Life of Pi. It's much better than I thought it would be. So far...


9:58:35 PM    ; comment []


Wow. I didn't realze how much the trip really took out of me. Normally when I do a short trip I'm completely jet-lagged while I'm there and then immediately drop back into my "home" time zone when I get back.

Not this time. I've been back since Thursday and I'm still waking up at 4am.

My tablet PC hasn't arrived yet. Last week Toshiba told me on the phone that it would ship today. Their web site says it hasn't shipped yet. Liars.

Worse, their web site doesn't say when the order will ship -- just whether it has or not. I have to call and go throug a gazillion levels of IVR to get to a real human being to answer my simple question. That's something that Dell definitely does right -- all the information is on the web site.


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