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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 10:29:57 JST Eaton

   Firing up the ol' copy of Delicious Library and scanning in all the books on all my shelves and BOY HOWDY.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 00:52:06 JST Eaton

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     The interesting thing about digitizing a collection of books (even a relatively small one) is that it very quickly reminds you how recently concepts like “unique identifiers” became important outside of very, very niche communities of practice.

     I have an awful lot of books that were published before ISBNs existed, let alone bar codes to scan them. I think this is probably one of my favorites, yoinked from the piles of a local library sale.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 00:52:43 JST Eaton

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     Given the title (“A Man's Guide to Business and Social Success”) and the publication date (1966!) I was expecting a guided tour through deranged social norms, but in fact it is an unexpectedly deep dive into what my generation called “metrosexuality.”

     Chapter upon chapter of detailed, diagrammed explanations of how hair follicles work, the importance of manicures and pedicures, techniques for caring for different types of skin, etc.

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     Tim Carmody (tim@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 07:00:15 JST Tim Carmody

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     @eaton there have always been dandies