More books available

Turns out I have one more hardcover copy of Spock's World available. These are hard to find now in decent condition. The book's dustjacket is in good condition -- slight bumps to top and bottom of spine and corners: otherwise perfect. The book inside I would rate as good / very good quality -- tight, clean, page edges clean, no wear. So: $60.00. Email me and it's yours. (Signed and personalized, of course.) Goodness, gone already! Thanks to the buyer.

Also available: a spare hardcover copy of Dark Mirror. It has very slight bumping/cracking to the bottom of the dustcover's spine, otherwise in the same shape on the inside as the book above. Slightly more available out there, so $50.00. As above, email me: first email wins.

Postage on each of these to the US (registered mail: I don't ship books of any value any other way these days, as transatlantic parcels seem to be showing an unnerving tendency to go missing in transit) will be about USD $25.00. A little higher to Asia / Australia.

Hey, cool old music!

And a whole lot of it. 3000+ titles recorded from a massive collection of 78 RPM vinyl.

This is a wonderful resource.

 

Local definition of being focused on work: totally forgot about the solar eclipse

Sheesh. Unusual for me. But here’s the info.  (The path of totality has also been Google Mapped.)

Stockholm will only be getting a partial — I estimate 35–40%-ish coverage from the diagram — but that’s still more than I’d have seen at home in Ireland. What great timing!

Here’s a magic phrase, though:

The path of totality crosses the Great Wall of China before sunset.

OMG SOMEBODY GET PICTUREZ!!

 

Tags: eclipse, August+1, 2008, Stockholm, midnight+sun, China, Great+Wall, partial, wow

The galactic bar scene

PASADENA, Calif.--Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, has found that bars tripled in number over the past seven billion years…

So what’s the cause? Gentrification, or looser liquor licensing laws?    You decide.

(with a tip of the hat to The Quantum Pontiff)

Tags: galaxies, bars, spirals, barred+spiral, CalTech, Spitzer+Science+Center, California+Institute+of+Technology