So a while back I had posted a series of spam comments that were unusual because they were much more relevant to the post on which the spam attempt had been made ― that is, they were generated by something that had clearly read the posts in question, and that equally clearly did not understand it. Those spam comments had then died down for a while, but now they’re back. And for some reason, almost all of them are on the “Dumpster Fire” series over at the animals’ blog. Let’s take a look!
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Teaser Tuesday 8/2/2016: “People Like Us”
So this week I’ve been reading People Like Us, by Zichao Deng, an amusing, quasi-journal-style crime caper in which two criminally-inclined Englishmen in Brittany plot to relieve a nunnery of an unidentified, but evidently very valuable, artifact.
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Attack of the Kindle Cases
I don’t just write Kindle books, I read them too. Which of course means that I have to keep my Kindle in a case, because I’m not about to carry around a skinny $180 piece of plastic without protecting it. So, one Kindle means one case, right?
Wrong.


