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Still fighting with Bezos bots.
Ugh. Got an autoreply from the Amazon Mainframe that the publisher’s letter I supplied reverting the rights to Felafel back to me didn’t check their boxes because they’re just a bunch of vacuum tubes in the end, and they haven’t got a fucking clue.
I am now trying to get all my rights reverted from all my overseas publishers so I can get them to pull their versions of the book from Amazon everywhere.
We’ll see how that goes.
Felafel at 30, and The Javan War.
In a couple of days I’ll send an email from here letting everyone know about the new edition of He Died With A Felafel in His Hand. The 30th Anniversary edition.
I know, right?
Yikes!
The complications of simplicity.
The very first writing machine I ever bought myself was a Sharp Intelliwriter 2000. It had 4K of memory, which I spent nearly $1000 bulking out to 16 K. It also had a tiny, tiny screen. I think maybe 64 characters at most. Enough for maybe half a sentence - if you kept your sentences shorter than this one.
Sad news. America is out of the T20 Cricket World Cup.
Related news, I was shocked to discover America had made it to the final eight of T20 Cricket World Cup.
So too were the teams they beat along the way. But, in a grudge match coming since 1770, England bundled them out of the comp.
There is only this left to be noted.
A Sherman can give you a very nice edge.
Always with the negative vibes, Moriarty.
Pour one out for Oddball.
57 Sandwiches.
I’ve decided it is Sandwich Week here at the Burger. And so you’re getting this link to a great piece at the NYT on 57 of the best sandwiches in New York. They’re great sandwiches, but even better would be eating one while scrolling the story on your phone. This is one of those pieces that seems purpose-built for consumption on a fondle slab.
Sandwich science.
The algorithm knows all, or at least it knows my love of sandwiches, which is why this Popular Science piece about a radical new way of cutting sangers dropped into my timeline.
It’s called the Y-Cut and it’s been running wild on TikTok.
The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps.
I am a sucker for this sort of thing. Like all men, apparently, I cant help thinking about the Roman Empire every single day. And this is the sort of tool that helps me understand exactly what I’m thinking about.
Elon Musk. Genius.
I’m part of this graph, sort of. When we started looking for an EV or a hybrid a couple of years ago, Tesla was front of mind. It’s still front of mind, but not for the same reasons.