Thanks, Lloyd, for noticing my new blog. I figure that you might like the name -- but is anyone going to remember it? I like the clever solution you came up with how to point to my dual blogs: ray.mond. Yes, it is going to be a bit of challenge to know how the two blogs are going to work together. For instance, do I want to load down my personal blog with MT shop-talk. Well, I guess it fits -- though my techie readers on the IU Technology Lodge might care more about this stuff....

On Saturday morning, some friends and I attended a reading by Iris Chang on the occasion of her new book The Chinese in America [booksense,
amazon, LC,
BPL]. The event
turned out to be substantially more than and different from the book readings
I've been used to attending at Cody's Books
(one of the co-sponsors).

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