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By Rex Stout   When the doorbell rang at the old brownstone on West 35th Street, I was already in a lousy mood.  We had just finished the Beltham embezzlement case, and it was Friday, and I had wanted to celebrate by spending the weekend with Lily Rowan.  Instead, Wolfe had insisted I finish the paperwork.  I [...]

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We’re still waiting for a few external things before the Brand!  New! blog and homepage come to exist.  Meanwhile, I’m about ready to declare myself done with The Wealth of Nations. While I still have several chapter to comment on, I have read them, and they do not concern aspects of political economy that interest [...]

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Just a heads up: We’re going to be doing some fun things with the blog, and with my web site (dreamcafe.com), so the look will be changing.  One thing we plan on is that the books on the blog will contain a link to discussion space here for each book (this in answer to the [...]

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Reesa and Nathan have been watching re-runs of the old Addams Family TV show.  I approve of this, in part because it’s refreshing to see a 60′s sitcom where one can believe the couple actually had sex.  But it produced a question which has been bothering me, lo, these many days, even to interfering with [...]

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Thanks to Adam Israel for fixing the problem that was preventing me from crossposting to LJ.  As I was holding off Wealth Of Nations posts until that worked again, you can blame him for their reappearance.

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As some of you know,  the RSS feed isn’t working here.  Now a new problem has developed: as of sometime yesterday, I can’t post comments.   In order to even read the comments, I have to navigate to the administration page; somewhat like getting the output from a program by doing a core dump.  I have [...]

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Starting sometime tomorrow, I won’t have internet access until Thursday.  Try to behave yourselves.

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Thanks to help from many people, we have moved about 95% of the Dream Cafe to its new home in Austin.  We have to wait a few days yet for the electricity and other utilities to be turned on, but I’m pretty sure the move will be complete by the middle of next week.  Thanks [...]

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Steve’s homepage has not been updated properly in some time, and is in need of a good overhaul. While I have some ideas of my own, and will be talking about with Steve about any he has, I thought I’d see what you, his fans, might like to see there. I can’t promise anything but [...]

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…in the last few days, I haven’t seen it.  I lost internet for a few days, and then my Linux box died.  I’m hoping to have it back again in a day or two, so I can get back to work; but in the meantime, if it’s urgent, tell me here and I’ll drop you [...]

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