Things you recently bought or got

I picked up two fun-looking reference books from the B&N bargain section today, The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have and The Deviant's Pocket Guide to Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, both by Dennis DiClaudio. There's a lesson here, folks: the right title can make your book impossible to pass up.

 

But if the bargain section claimed them....

 

Touché, good sir Mingo.

 

My favourite ever book was fished out of a large bin in the backyard of a charity shop. This book was deemed unfit to fetch even a token few pence.

 

And the book was...

 

I'm not speaking against the bargain bin. I frequent it. I am however speaking about the OPs comment that the right title makes a book impossible to pass up. If it made it to the bargain bin, otherwise would be suggested. That's all.

 

It’s okay. I wasn’t accusing you of bargain-binism.

 

Would that make prejudice against sales of bed linens (known as a "white sale" in this country) bargain albinism?

 

Well if it does, I’m a vegetabalist.

 

is that anything like a Kabbalist?

 

Possibly, although I don’t know what a kabbal is.

 

William Carlos Williams Collected Poems I

I bought volume 2 about three years ago (can’t remember why I bought volume 2 first). I just hope I like his early stuff just as much, but with 608 pages to get through I’m sure there’ll be a few in there to inspire.

 

A French Press on Friday from wal-mart (aka Suburban shopper hell).
Oddly a well spent 20 for simple and easy coffee.

 

Inexpensive soundbar for my new TV. Makes a world of difference.

 

A new leg.

No more Long John Silver impressions.

 

Don't make us crowdfund you a parrot!

 

I bought a new router. I hate buying necessary boring stuff.

 

I bought a new lens for my camera, and when I went to test it the camera died. It's now in the repair shop.


Sigh.

 

Never has parting with money been more painful than when it’s for a necessity!

 

Twenty years ago I climbed Mt. Fuji. Carried two cameras, a battery-powered point and shoot 35mm and a 35mm SLR that I'd owned since my Marine Corps days. At the bottom (5th station) I dropped the point and shoot while adjusting my pack and broke the battery gate. At the top I took out my SLR and it just wouldn't function at all. Later, after I got back down, the repair shop told me my SLR was too old for them to repair (Minolta X-370 that I got in 1990 or so, and this was only 2001).

So pics or it didn't happen? Guess I never climbed Fuji.

 

Were either of them Fujifilm?

I’ll get me coat!

 

Might have been, come to think of it. I think they're still in storage somewhere, at least the SLR, because I couldn't bear to just junk it.

 

I believe! I've wanted to climb Fujiyama ever since my father told me about seeing it when he was in Japan after the war. Won't happen now, but I still like to think about it.

 

Hey Jud, how are you finding your new notebook?

 

I'm being REALLY nitpicky, but it's not called Fujiyama. While "yama" is indeed one way to read the character for "mountain", it's actually read as "san" in this case, so it's referred to as Fuji-san in Japanese.

We now return you to your regular scheduled programming.