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Your Big Chance

The Other PageJust as the Universe is said to consist of two or more branes, the TOFSpot consists of two or more pages.  The toggle is over on the left under "PAGES" (appropriately enough). 

The Other Page consists at present of an excerpt from The Shipwrecks of Time, namely a scene with the author's secret title of "Frank On-Stage," meaning it is the scene in which Francis Xavier Delacorte makes his appearance in the story.  It will be up for a time for anyone to comment on.  It will be succeeded at sundry times by other bits of writing past, present, and future. 

So far, only one person has commented on the page!  Let's get cracking, mon dudes!

Fair and Balanced!

A North Carolina license plate kerfuffle.

Statistics Time!

"Despite Massachusetts' historic leadership on pay equity--in 1945 it became the first state to require equal pay for comparable work--the gap between men's and women's salaries here is now among the biggest in the country."--Boston Globe, Dec. 10

For those who don't understand how this is possible, consider a very simple situation with 100 weremen and 100 women and two jobs: Customer Service
Rep and Chemical Engineer, and absolute equality in pay.  

...............................Weremen.....................WomenCSR @500..............30 =15,000..................70 = 35,000Chem Eng @900.....70 = 63,000..................30 = 27,000Total.....................100 =78,000..................100=62,000And women make only 0.79 for every dollar made by a wereman, even though both get paid exactly the same salary for each job.  

Now allow for the fact that some proportion of women will choose the vocation of motherhood and homemaking over salaryman. 

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Orrery

Go here. 

Toggle Copernican or Tychonic

http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/orrery_2011_bce.swf

Tree O'Life

http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2012/12/testing-one-two-three.html

A New Feature

Paging TOF
TOF has recently discovered that he can add pages to the TOFSpot blog.  Quelle surprise!  And is now experimenting with this new-found superpower.
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Clearing the Tabs!

Ends and OddsYes, it's that time again: Clearing the Tabs!  Wherein TOF posts a
number of links which he saved as of possible interest for his Reader
and wishes to get up there before his collander-like mind forgets why he
thought them interesting.
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Electomania

Some Views of the Last ElectionHere are a couple of maps, though I have forgotten where I saw them referenced:
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The Shipwrecks of Time

The setting of Part I of The Shipwrecks of Time, as many of you know, is Milwaukee WI in Aug 1965-Aug 1967. I am now up to the period of May 1966. There was on Marquette University a weekly mass at the Joan of Arc chapel on Wednesday eve. which was much favored by former nuns and priests. Since one of the characters in the novel is a former nun, I figured to set a scene here, perhaps as a prelim for something later at St. Barnabas and the demos at Judge Cannon's house. Lo, and behold...
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On the Razor's Edge

1. Received author's copies of the mm paperback for In the Lion's Mouth. 18 copies now on the shelves.

2. Received the copy-edited manuscript for On the Razor's Edge, and in going through it have plucked a couple of lines here and there that caught my eye for one reason or another. In no particular order, a miscellany of lines:

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http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2012/11/on-razor.html#more