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I just ordered The Logic Of Failure ( at amazon ) ( at isbn.nu )

I like Amazon's SIPs, and I particularly like the ones for this book:

Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
storeroom experiment, bad participants, predator variable, reductive hypothesis, reverse planning, elaboration index, ballistic behavior, experiment director, good participants, moth population, problem sector, partial goals, regulator settings, watch factory, temporal configurations, experiment participants, planning game

Fig. 1: A 1977 Mercury Retrograde

I despise astrology, but I'm starting to wonder if they're right about that whole "Mercury in retrograde" thing. I mean, I'm actually doing okay, better than I have in quite a while. Meanwhile, three-fourths of the people I know are having huge problems: substance abuse relapses, serious legal problems, bad government surprises, social disasters, Bad Love, medical "fun", surprise pop-up angst toys, Personal Itch, and insurance companies.

When your Mercury goes retrograde, my advice is junk it and buy a Honda before you put any more money in it. That's what I say.

...and Cal-ISO's website is only showing moderate demand. I wonder what they screwed up this time? Looks like a bigass outage, too. My office went down right away.