Moon Madness Strikes Again

This gallery contains 2 photos. What a difference a clear night makes! Tonight’s half-moon was directly overhead the house. Without any trees or clouds to bar the view, this piece of cheese was very bright. There was much less noise present. The first image was taken at maximum zoom in Sunset Mode with flash and on a tripod (which is probably not necessary if you have a very steady hand, as the speed of the shot is quite fast).

a half-moon on a clear night (digital zoom)

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A Semi-Cynical Look at Higher Edjamacation Textbooks of Yore

A Stack of Books (top)

a stack of books (top)

University is a popular time for amassing a vast assortment of books whose titles were equivalent in word and letter count to the first paragraph of a few university theses that I wrote.

Examples: An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making (Fifth Edition); The Economics of the Canadian Financial System (Second Edition); and Microcomputers and Microprocessors: The 8080, 8085, and Z-80 Programming, Interfacing, and Troubleshooting.  Why the mouthful when it comes to titles? Academic writers are given to bouts of verbosity, a disorder that seems to worsen with every successive publication. I seriously think that some of them could have successful secondary careers as lawyers.

Post-university life is an equally infamous time for getting rid of the same books you never Continue reading