Anyone else read Christopher Moore? Emperor Norton's a regular in a bunch of his books, hilarious stuff.
Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States
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Re: Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States
#32>> ...the price of rice skyrocketed from 4 to 36 cents per pound (a 900% increase). That's an 800% increase.
Thanks for catching that; fixed!
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#33Other cities have similar characters, I'm sure.
Memphis has Prince Mongo [http://www.1045theriver.com/pages/7337724.php?]
I grew up in Memphis. Prince Mongo had a nightclub that was the place to go for high school kids. They apparently never checked for ID's... it was known for serving to high schoolers.
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#34Earlier 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.
It's pretty disparaging to dismiss the entire country except for San Francisco and New Orleans by saying "yeah those places are all the same and bland". There are many, many places in the US with their own unique cultures and quirks; the fact that you're unaware of them doesn't mean that they aren't there.
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#35I love that he went a little crazy in public and the city residents just went with it.
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#36Earlier 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've read plenty of older books in ebook form; they're riddled with obvious OCR errors but perfectly intelligible. Making an ebook from a paper book, as far as I know, involves no more than putting it into a special-purpose shredder that separates and scans the pages, and since those already exist, the cost of doing so is extremely low.
IP issues are something else again.
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#37There is a new Emperor Norton in town: http://norton13.us/