I can has completed draft?

So I have a completed first draft of my Kalamazoo paper. The next step is to give it a test read and figure out how much hacking and slashing I have to do before I polish. But I have notes where all my slides go (no images, alas, just timelines and statistics) and have all the data crunched for those and the handout (into which I'll probably throw lots of detailed data to make up for the narrow focus of the paper itself). Piece of cake. After all, I have nothing else scheduled this weekend.

That Amazon Meme ...

You know that amazon.com meme that's going around? The one where you look up what the first two things were that you ever bought from the site? I have only ever bought one book from amazon.com. I bought it this past Christmas. The only reason I used amazon.com was because I'd left all my Christmas shopping until the 24th and I was in a small town in Maine and I was desperate. If I want to order a book on-line, I'll track down the publisher's site, or find a topic-specific distributor, or ... or pretty much anything else that I can think of before I'll decide that I need the book badly enough and soon enough that I have to stoop to Amazon.

Not everything that's cheap and easy is in your long-term self-interest.