<body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID\x3d17829824\x26blogName\x3dWrong+Side+of+the+Tracks\x26publishMode\x3dPUBLISH_MODE_BLOGSPOT\x26navbarType\x3dBLUE\x26layoutType\x3dCLASSIC\x26searchRoot\x3dhttps://wrongjr.blogspot.com/search\x26blogLocale\x3den_US\x26v\x3d2\x26homepageUrl\x3dhttp://wrongjr.blogspot.com/\x26vt\x3d7706307521957129916', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe", messageHandlersFilter: gapi.iframes.CROSS_ORIGIN_IFRAMES_FILTER, messageHandlers: { 'blogger-ping': function() {} } }); } }); </script>
          CONTACT     |      ABOUT     |      SEARCH     |      RECENT POSTS     |      ARCHIVES     |      BLOGS, &TC     |      RELIGION     |      ENTERTAINMENT     |      MEDIA     |      IDEAS     |     

11.18.2005    |    The other Adams
Scott, by name. Creator and brainiac of Dilbert, who is Dogbert's pet human. Looks like Scott is attempting to become another Douglas, may he rest in peace. Well, today, Scott Adams is offering you a free download of his widely praised, cursed, and ignored non-Dilbert opus, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment.

From The Dilbert Blog, Scott Adams writes:
Many people have told me that God's Debris is the best book they've ever read (really). About an equal number say it's in [sic] insult to literature and a disservice to humanity (really). But more important, it's FREE.

The hard cover version of God's Debris was a solid financial success. But it's such a strange little piece of work that it was hard to market it. People don't even agree about whether it's fiction or non-fiction, religion or science fiction or philosophy or just a good old fashioned mind-%*$#.

If you couldn't be inspired to pay real money for such a thing, I get that. But just think about how much more you enjoy a crappy movie if it's on a long flight and it's free. This is exactly like that, except without the peanuts. How much could you regret having a free book that downloads in seconds?
A sampling of the widely-ranging reader comments at Amazon.com:
  • Want to have your brains spun around inside your skull?
  • piece of crap
  • you must buy this book
Well, now we need not actually buy it. Looks like fun; I'll give it a tussle.

posted by Jack Rich at 8:55 PM

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home






about this blog

I was born, grew up, and went to school in the Bronx, New York -- on the wrong side of the tracks. Got the chance to go to college, so instead of joining the NYPD (the obvious career choice at that time and place), I became an engineer. Spent some years designing things that go boom (or things that take things that go boom to their destinations...), principally for our military. Also took an interesting career turn and for some years was in charge of counter-terrorism for my agency...so I learned something about guns. And when to use them.

I am a believer, in God. Christian. My opinion of most denominations is that they seem to be more concerned with the collection plate and devising intricate rules as to who is in and who is out.

My politics are a mix of conservative and libertarian, as in live and let live. With one exception, I favor small government, maximum personal freedom, coupled with personal responsibility and accountability for one's actions. I also know that there are, and have always been, things that are true, and things that are not. Two problems: Being smart enough to know which is which, and having the guts to act on it. I make no claims...

The exception to small government? I favor a robust national defense, against enemies foreign, and domestic. Or, as Teddy Roosevelt should have said, "speak softly and carry a whole bunch of armored divisions."

This blog will focus on politics, culture, religion, national security. That's pretty much the same territory as the New York Times. Just that I will never label my opinions as "news."



top of page