Random Things
Sep. 10th, 2003 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosI found the most fabulous thing at Pegasus when I was in Berkeley yesterday for (yet another) optometrist appointment.
A copy of The Fifth Elephant. In hardback. Well, all right. But this one had a Josh Kirby cover -- unusual to see one of those in the U.S., especially in a used book store. So I took a look.
It's the first printing, Australian edition. And they were charging three dollars for it. Why? Because there's no price printed on the dust jacket, so they just went "whatever." I was very amused to see, right next to it, the hardback American edition of Night Watch -- for which they were charging nine dollars. New, this sells for thirty-nine dollars at Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley; Night Watch (American) sells for twenty-four. So. Just sayin'.
I've never had an Australian edition of a PTerry before. British, yes. Australian, no. Woo!
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I haven't been signed onto ICQ in a really long time. It's big, it's clunky, it's stupid. But since I'm using Trillian, I thought "well, I do have that one friend who never uses anything but ICQ..." and signed on.
Today, I got my very first ICQ junk message! It's been more than a week -- I don't know what was keeping people. Honestly. And it wasn't about XXX nude school girls underwater XXX either; it was about protecting your computer from Evil Hackers. Has ICQ changed this much?
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The web page where I check on my tickets informs me that "weather is cooperating with airports." Jolly good, that. No compromise possible on this issue. So glad weather decided to cooperate; avoided unnecessary mess, with warrants and whatnot, by coming quietly.
I've always found that phrase amusing. More so when the object is "airports."
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I wonder what it would be like to be one of those enviable people who have 20/20 vision throughout their entire lives. What's it like to be able to see the instant you wake up, before groping for glasses? What's it like to always see the world with the clarity of a new prescription? Do you even see it that clearly, or is it not as noteworthy? When I get a new prescription (new contacts last week, new glasses yesterday) I notice everything again. Space seems different somehow. I've had glasses since I was, like, two years old, so it's just ... a weird thought.
A copy of The Fifth Elephant. In hardback. Well, all right. But this one had a Josh Kirby cover -- unusual to see one of those in the U.S., especially in a used book store. So I took a look.
It's the first printing, Australian edition. And they were charging three dollars for it. Why? Because there's no price printed on the dust jacket, so they just went "whatever." I was very amused to see, right next to it, the hardback American edition of Night Watch -- for which they were charging nine dollars. New, this sells for thirty-nine dollars at Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley; Night Watch (American) sells for twenty-four. So. Just sayin'.
I've never had an Australian edition of a PTerry before. British, yes. Australian, no. Woo!
***
I haven't been signed onto ICQ in a really long time. It's big, it's clunky, it's stupid. But since I'm using Trillian, I thought "well, I do have that one friend who never uses anything but ICQ..." and signed on.
Today, I got my very first ICQ junk message! It's been more than a week -- I don't know what was keeping people. Honestly. And it wasn't about XXX nude school girls underwater XXX either; it was about protecting your computer from Evil Hackers. Has ICQ changed this much?
***
The web page where I check on my tickets informs me that "weather is cooperating with airports." Jolly good, that. No compromise possible on this issue. So glad weather decided to cooperate; avoided unnecessary mess, with warrants and whatnot, by coming quietly.
I've always found that phrase amusing. More so when the object is "airports."
***
I wonder what it would be like to be one of those enviable people who have 20/20 vision throughout their entire lives. What's it like to be able to see the instant you wake up, before groping for glasses? What's it like to always see the world with the clarity of a new prescription? Do you even see it that clearly, or is it not as noteworthy? When I get a new prescription (new contacts last week, new glasses yesterday) I notice everything again. Space seems different somehow. I've had glasses since I was, like, two years old, so it's just ... a weird thought.
