Fly-by book post

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) - Tom Vanderbilt Probably on my list of best books I've read in 2009, even though it's early in the year. Fascinating, thorough. I've tweeted quotes from it. When I was reading little bits of it to S, he kept saying "but..." and bringing up some point - and I'd say, oh, the author already addressed that point. Pretty much all the stuff about how we do and don't obey traffic laws, how we do and don't get into accidents - when it's counterintuitive, he's got the cites to studies. Oh, and late-merging is a better strategy than early merging. Better for society as well as the individual.

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• 21:27 I did not know that Taser stood for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle. #
• 21:38 by the way, when did we start spelling it Inka instead of Inca, and why? #
• 21:40 and while we're at it, if English speakers are now referring to Beijing and Mumbai, why are we still saying Munich instead of Mu"nchen? #
• 02:08 current crocheting: amigurumi ring-tailed lemur. If it comes out nocely, the first of several. #
• 02:09 current knitting: intermittent desultory spurts of work on spiral tube spots, and on a charity blanket. #
• 02:11 current reading: huge stack of magazines, a couple of series murder mysteries, and Jana Oliver's _Virtual Evil_ #
• 02:15 Saturday night is chinchilla bath night! #
• 16:51 "Come,come to me garden seeds. Come, wonderful hybrid breeds. Take me away from this snowy world, to my horticulture home." PHC, years ago #

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