Book Sale

Yesterday, with Jasper and Sheng Cheng, we also stopped by this book sale along Orchard Road, next to the duck and hippo tours place. They had a book teaching how to play Street Fighter 2, got a few combo moves that can use to make opponent dizzy. Jasper read this picture book on Roman Sex, which featured pictures of carvings and sculptures and the like, showing men with huge members and in various sexual acts. They also were selling Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, which I didn't get. Also had James Joyce's Dubliners. All really cheap. In Centerpoint there was this shop selling bags, selling a bag for $8.90, which was quite nice.

Another public service announcement, on an issue of great importance. Corporations again screwing up the world for money, taking, stealing from the public good. Imagine this: scientists at universities doing research and doing science, having to pay through their noses in order to access the results of such research. Even though it's scientists that do the research, write the papers, typeset the papers, referee the papers, do almost everything to publish the results, and universities have to pay publishing companies (not the contributors!) to access such research. See the following site.

What We Can Do About Science Journals
[ http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/journals.html ]