One story is O(n^2), the other is O(2^n). A truly important difference, and one not well understood by journalists who call everything “exponential”.

A long time ago 🇨🇦n newspapers had Saturday magazine that had a columnist Doyle, and According to Doyle regularly featured such like names.

Also names of recently married spouses that seemed completely implausible.

This is why the professions of "data driven" decision making always make me ragey. Data doesn't drive. It doesn't even provide answers without a lot of analysis and human interaction. People often want easy answers though, even if they're wrong.

Je le lirais, ou bien, j’essaierai. Je suis heureux d’avoir lu La Chanson d’Arbonne bien qu’après reading A Song for Arbonne (by Guy Gabriel Kay).

I admit to being a very small (but perhaps not svelte) audience.

Short answer. Ease of replication.

If you keep taking GRR Martin’s Game of Thrones out of the library and gradually write out a long-hand version, you might even persuade GRR to sign it.

If you strip an e-book of its DRM, and put it on a website, he might get upset.

Her loss cannot be attributed entirely to her; Myron Baloney had generated a fair deal of ill will towards the party.

Umh. 🇨🇦 is 7 time zones wide and 47 degrees latitude high; that’s a lot of places to see clouds.

Speaker emerita

More lapsang Souchon than Lady Grey?

There’s something so deeply fundamentally wrong with the premises

Je suis au point où je peux me faire comprendre en français mais je suis complètement perdu dans une soirée.

When I was 20ish and a huge JRRT fan I see to wonder, who can see my inner elf?

_The Gate to Women’s Country_. uncomfortably radical in its approach.

only pretends to be Baggins, actually a Took.

Are you sure of the attribution?