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• roberth2309 commented on Introducing new guest blogger: Ramez Naam
  Sorry. My bad. Replace "Yours Truly" with Ramez Naam....
• roberth2309 commented on Introducing new guest blogger: Ramez Naam
  I know, I know. I beg forgiveness on the grounds of brain fog....
• Bellinghman commented on Introducing new guest blogger: Ramez Naam
  I can understand the mistake. It's humbling how far one can get through life and still have misconceptions about the meanings of quite common words or phrases: you are not the only one to trip. For writers this is one reason to have beta readers and copy editors. Parenthetically I notice a particular blogger every now and then using "$foo and I" when he means "$foo and me". The former should be used when it's an expansion of 'we', the latter when an expansion of 'us'. (Pray Muphry that I'm right on this.)...
• paws4thot commented on Introducing new guest blogger: Ramez Naam
  Granted; I only weighed in to make it clear that there was more than one person who'd read #11 the same way....
• slamble commented on Introducing new guest blogger: Ramez Naam
  They're available. Search for them on Amazon in the Kindle store, rather than just following the links; Amazon will spit out the version you're "allowed" to buy. Or use the Robot Trading Company links provided by Ramez. However, at least for me, they're more expensive (£5.49, versus $US5.46 from Amazon.)...