>>>>>Since I know you share my love of language, do you get as bemused as me at the serial misuse of the word "literally"? "He literally went through the roof." No, he did not literally go through the roof.
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>>>>I do share your love of language, though I think I you may be more bemused than I about about the use of the objective case when the implication is "more bemused than I am" ( sorry, couldn't resist, I know we've had that conversation before with Tamar )
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>>>I don't make those sorts of mistakes because I'm too perfect. ;)
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>>So am I but because of my biggest fault - being too humble - I don't let anyone know. ;-)
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>>Did I recommend to you Robert Harris' "The Fear Index" ?
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>No, you didn't. Would you like to?
I am about 3/4 through and really enjoying it. I've liked all his other stuff ( Fatherland, Imperium etc ) and this one centers around a computer geek who has developed AI for Algorithmic Trading. Plot more of a thriller than a geekfest but atmoshpere in Geneva is quite good.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.