We're in lovely East Hampton, staying with Belle's grand-dad - who is, unfortunately, not well. But that's why we're here. Not so many summers left in the old gentleman, we fear. Good to let the great grandkids see him, and vice versa, while we can.
In other news, hey! You can pre-order my Plato book through Amazon!
I've also released the final version of the text on Issuu. Here:
More later! I've got to drive Zoe over to the club to do JA - Junior Achievement! (That's where she plays around in a little WASPs nest with other kids!)
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Hello. I am visiting Singapore in a week. It appears you still live there. I am there on bidness, but I have 1.5 days to see what is most worth seeing, and more importantly, eat what is worth eating there.
The purpose of the interwebs being to serve me, you may now commence disgorging copious suggestions. BOW BEFORE MANDOS. [/giblets]
Posted by: Mandos | July 27, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Mandos! I bow before Mandos. I will be home by August 2nd but, alas, my half more worthier, more Belle-like, will only be following a week later with children in tow. When are you in town?
Posted by: jholbo | July 28, 2009 at 04:23 AM
From late night on the 1st to very early morning on the 7th. I have the 2nd free up to the evening, and then all of the 6th. Then there may be off and on lunches and dinnertimes when I may or may not be free, but I gather I should use that time for networking so as not to waste than eleventythousand dollars my employer is paying to send me.
Posted by: Mandos | July 28, 2009 at 05:29 AM
Very sorry I'm only reading R&P now and didn't get this to you earlier. But I just found a typo on p. 86, five lines from the bottom, first word on the line reads "abuot". Whoops. Maybe you can edit the pdf (and maybe, since new copies are being printed, new copies of the book? but that seems unlikely.)
Posted by: tony | August 12, 2009 at 04:38 AM
Hey tony, yeah there are actually a couple dozen little typos in the final version. I will be correcting the PDF in a day or two and, I hope, when the print run is done it will be possible to correct some of them since they are non-substantive. I dunno. I'll ask the publisher about that.
Posted by: jholbo | August 12, 2009 at 07:50 AM
swell! should I assume then that you're found most other typos? there are a few others I've caught here and there.
Posted by: tony | August 13, 2009 at 02:48 AM
"you've". whoops.
Posted by: tony | August 13, 2009 at 02:48 AM
Alas, yes.
Posted by: jholbo | August 13, 2009 at 04:00 PM
Seems like it is easier to spot typos in a work that has already been published, than in drafts and galleys -- they just sort of jump out at you rather than having to be searched out...
Posted by: The Modesto Kid | August 13, 2009 at 08:32 PM
It is all so sadly true, what you say.
See also: easier to spot a rake that you just stepped on, that just smacked you in the face. As opposed to a rake concealed there in the tall grass.
Posted by: jholbo | August 13, 2009 at 08:42 PM