Blather and Nonsense

Eliminating all doubt

It's been a great couple of weeks for bookstores, I must say. My parents, my brother, and I just returned from a trip to Portland, where our primary objective was, of course, Powell's. Not only did I manage to come away with less than $500 of books (shocker, that), but I also managed some very decent finds. Besides the requisite number of staggeringly thick histories, biographies, and technical books, I also found a replacement copy of my beloved (and out of print, alas) The Hubble Wars by Eric J. Chaisson, Brian J. Cudahy's Under the Sidewalks of New York, and the catchily-named tome IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. But my favorite purchase would have to be a copy of the 1988 edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, known to traffic engineering enthusiasts everywhere as MUTCD -- drool!