June, 14, 2023 archives
now affiliated with bookshop.org
one of the features i have had in this blogging software since almost the beginning is some simple expansion of pseudo-urls, one of them being isbn:###. until recently, that would take you to amazon with an (old, expired) affiliate tag.
bookshop is a service that lets you order from one of the major book distributors (ingram) and kicks a portion to affiliates and independent bookstores. because they’re just connected with the one distributor, not every book is available, but i’m happier with broken links for those books than directing any traffic towards amazon.
and if you happen to buy a book that i have mentioned here using one of those links, i get a little commission. maybe i’ll be able to buy a potato with the proceeds some day.
(i do virtually all of my book reading using the libby app with my los angeles public library membership.)
now with old comments
slowly rebuilding the scaffolding beneath this blog and i re-enabled the display of old comments, which led me to re-discover the time when random people would get mad at me because i mistakenly said redman was a member of the wu tang clan.
what really cracks me up in the comments is my wife celia casually noting that she had dinner with odb and had talked to him about being confused as to wu tang clan’s membership.
you can’t post new comments. i am still deciding if i want to implement that again and deal with all the nonsense that will come with it.