Font of All Evil

For the first time, I am displeased with my Kindle.

One of the first books I downloaded was George Boole's classic Investigation of the Laws of Thought. Like most mathematical texts at Project Gutenberg, it was in the form of a .pdf. Just now, I decided to read it. I paged past the usual Gutenberg stuff, then the table of contents, and finally arrived at Chapter One.

It is unreadable. The font is simply too small for these aging eyes. Normally this would not be a problem; Kindle has a menu allowing for changing the font as the user pleases. But -

that menu is not available for this work. I suppose it has to do with its being a .pdf; I haven't checked any of the other .pdfs I have, but that's the only explanation I can think of.

It's not a total loss. I can still read it on my home computer - but that is far less convenient.

Grmph.

Sunday Music: Earth, Wind and Fire, EWF

Album Title: EWF

Why I Bought It: For "After the Love Is Gone".

Overall: Although I love this album, very little of it sticks with me - just a general feeling of smooooth - smooth and cool like "Devotion" or "Love's Holiday", or smooth and hot like "Fantasy" or "Boogie Wonderland". (And then there's "Saturday Nite", with its pomposity-punctured conclusion. That one's not so smooth.) Basically, it's background music - very good background music, but no more than that.

Chairs

In the current "Freefall", Florence, having been kidnapped by Clippy, has been tied to a chair and is being interrogated by the parkae. I can't help thinking of how Mark Vorkosigan handled being tied to a chair, and likewise Ivan Vorpatril. Neither of their strategies seems available to Florence, sadly.