[OT] Posleen/Ringo/Weber and his CD

Glenn said:
Saint Louis is enjoying single digit 
days/negative degree
nights	lately but it will (according to the 
weather
guessers) 50 in less than a week then nose 
dive time again
for the temp.  How cold for how long to 
affect their
performance?

[Tomb] Interestingly, his argument for why 
Canada wasn't attacked (or at least not 
much) was that it was too cold. Odd that, 
as I'm sure Toronto has had many days in 
winter that weren't all that much colder 
than NY or even DC. And the summers up 
here would be fine. I think this was a bit of 
silliness on Mr. Ringo's behalf. I'd have 
been happier if he said "other than the 
corridor and BC's lower mainland, not much 
worth paying attention to". 

The odd thing is, with years to prepare, 
you'd think that Canada, the US, and a 
number of the other nations would have 
been more effective at caching materials 
and planning for guerilla action...

Ah well, enjoy the read, don't sweat the 
details. 

On another book related note, I got War of 
Honor (Weber's latest installment). Other 
than finding it a mediocre read (some of his 
characters have to act overly dense to 
make his plot work), I was most taken by 
the included CD. The CD includes PILES of 
books in electronic format, including some I 
haven't even seen in softcover yet (the only 
way I buy em). So I'm getting a chance to 
read some books that I can't buy yet in the 
format I'm willing to pay for (I read too 
much). Pretty neat, and on a big monitor, 
not hard to read sitting in my easy chair. 
Nicely done, Baen! I'm so happy with the 
basic approach and some of the underlying 
philosophical choices Baen (and the likes of 
Eric Flint) have made, I'm going to be 
buying the books in softcover even after 
I've read them, just as a vote of support. 

If you can get a hold of this book/CD 
combo (harder now), well worth the effort. 

Tomb Raider
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