> "Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abdominal word 'Frisco,' which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor."
I suppose he meant abominable?
Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States
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Re: Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States
#22He reminds me a bit of this guy in New Zealand:
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're going to sully the Caro read with Cliff's Notes, you may as well just read the Wikipedia page.
Obviously I'm not going to. I'm complaining that while the book itself is ludicrously difficult to buy, getting the cliffs notes is easy.
Where are you trying to get it shipped to? I see paperbacks of the Caro book with free delivery on Amazon US, DE, UK and JP.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear that "The Power Broker", a biography of Moses and winner of the Pulitzer in 1974, is a fantastic read :) http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Broker-Robert-Moses/dp/03947... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker
Well, great. A 1300-page book available for under $15 plus international shipping... or as an audiobook, 66 hours long ( but free shipping!) for... $70? Something has gone deeply wrong in the market here. If only there were some way to convey three and a half pounds of information across the ocean in less than a month and for a reasonable price. :( Ironically, it seems to be easy to buy an ebook of cliffs notes to th…
It's a book from 1975, so there's no digital version, and it's probably not worth the time to make an ebook for the sales it gets.
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#25Shows you how much americans wish they had any kind of royalty in their life. But no-no... you've made your choice!
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only know a little about the gentrification going on in SF, mostly from stories I've run across here on HN. Is it bad that a new culture is taking hold in SF, and why? (given that at some point in the past, a new culture had to take over in SF for the now disappearing culture to exist in the first place)
Most of the united states has the same bland culture. San Francisco's was special, comparable to New Orleans in uniqueness I think. Though a lot of the rest of the country sees SF as being too liberal and would gladly see it fall in line with the bland sameness of everywhere else. Especially the flood of libertarian minded young white males.
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
-Tennessee Williams
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, great. A 1300-page book available for under $15 plus international shipping... or as an audiobook, 66 hours long ( but free shipping!) for... $70? Something has gone deeply wrong in the market here. If only there were some way to convey three and a half pounds of information across the ocean in less than a month and for a reasonable price. :( Ironically, it seems to be easy to buy an ebook of cliffs notes to th…
It's a book from 1975, so there's no digital version, and it's probably not worth the time to make an ebook for the sales it gets.
I actually emailed the publisher about this, as the power broker is one of my favorite books (but totally impractical to carry around).
I got a response saying that they would love to do an ebook version of TPB, but Robert Caro won't allow them to do that - he even refuses to submit his writing digitally, instead writing everything by hand, then typing it up with a typewriter, which is then retyped by a typist at the publisher into Word.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're going to sully the Caro read with Cliff's Notes, you may as well just read the Wikipedia page.
Obviously I'm not going to. I'm complaining that while the book itself is ludicrously difficult to buy, getting the cliffs notes is easy.
Ludicrously difficult? I just ordered it for AUD$32.19 delivered, to Australia, in two or three clicks.
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#29>> ...the price of rice skyrocketed from 4 to 36 cents per pound (a 900% increase).
That's an 800% increase.
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#30Being a Norton, I long ago heard about this guy. Though I have no idea why it's on priceonomics. This article contains less info than the wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
Related to Edward Norton the actor?
Nope, but I did tell people I was when I was a kid.
Also other fibs: dads owns 'Norton Antivirus', and related to WCW wrestler Scott Norton.