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I got back from my trip to Amsterdam a couple of days ago. I had a great time there. I took lots of photos, many of them of ducks.

This is caffeine:

I was pretty excited to find recently that you can now purchase pure caffeine from sports supplements retailers. Caffeine’s cheap – it’s the by-product of decaffeination – and I like the idea of caffeinating my own drinks (rather than just drinking coke or whatever). So I bought some. The picture above shows 200mg of the stuff, or about 2 cups-of-coffee worth. It was nice added to some orange juice and lemonade.

When a writer can’t come to the damn point after 125 pages, I start to lose interest. The thing that amazes Kluger is that sometimes things that appear simple are actually pretty complicated. This doesn’t seem quite so astonishing for me, and Kluger’s sense of amazement wears rather thin with chapter-after-chapter of meandering semi-coherence. Maybe he draws it all together in a staggering conclusion; I wouldn’t know because I didn’t get that far. I suspect not, though.