The Perambulator

 
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A perambulator is best known as a baby buggy or pram. It is also a wheeled instrument used to measure distances while walking. Other usage includes “one who makes a tour of inspection on foot” and the odd definition seen in Alan Dean Foster’s Paths of the Perambulator, “an inter-dimensional creature that wanders through different [...]

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This is my obligatory gripe about the machine post. I’ll do it once and then I’ll be done with it and I’ll go read the book.
Trying to wrap my mind around wordpress reminds me of the first time I saw a linux directory. What was a /bin or a /var or even the /usr directory? [...]

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This is a great book for anyone but a middle-aged man. In the beginning, Dr. Diver is charming and debonair if somewhat flighty and promiscuous. He makes several poor choices. One, he becomes romantically involved with a mental patient and marries her. Two, he robs the cradle to have an affair with a young actress. [...]

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