The Amazing Work Ethic of a Hack

This morning while doing my usual morning things in the bathroom, I happened to pick up the most recent Entertainment Weekly. In it they had a short article about the new sequel to Dan Brown's The Davinci Code. I never read The Davinci Code, but my partner Shawn read it and his earlier book Angels and Demons which she much preferred, though I believe she thought both were kind of "eh."

However, I was very impressed by Mr. Brown's work ethic as described in the article. Apparently, he got up...