Saturday, December 18, 2010

Snow Dog

Tucker in the snow. As you can see, the dogs have out on the snow quite a bit.


Now is this a good-looking guy or what? (11 months yesterday)

Book Errors

 Sometimes my mind rambles too.

I just finished reading the book Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy and Grant Blackwood. It's a great story, but I found 3 errors in the library edition that I read. ISBN 978-0-399-15723-3 Copyright 2010 by Rubicon.

Page 166
"The witness reports would invariably fall into one of three general categories: I saw nothing; ... it all happened so fast; and ... I don't speak Russian. And of those accounts, the only true statement was likely the last one: It all happened so fast."
That was not the last statement, it was the 2nd statement.

Page 171
"He had everything cross-filed on his computer, all of it in the terabytes of RAM on the The Campus's monstrous server, and he called up the most recent documents..."
The data would not have been stored in RAM on the server.

Page 901
"Almost immediately it became apparent that the Cushman's breaks were inadequate."
 It should be "brakes", not "breaks".

Wednesday, December 15, 2010