The Fredösphere

First, a pool table update.  The wifeösphere's awesome web searching prowess enabled her to find a very nice miniature pool table that Penny's is selling for half-off.  We drove up to the Twelve Oaks Mall last night and nabbed one.  If Amazon gives us the promised refund, our far superior new possession will cost us nothing more in the end.  Very satisfying.  The table is not really marketed for kids, so I'm calling it a miniature instead of a toy, but the kids love it.

Well, the cool topic I had for today will have to be postponed until I can find all the, uh, supporting documentation, so in the meantime read this dazzling yet depressing story:  The Library of Babel.  (The story, by Jorge Luis Borges, is much better than the crude computer-rendered art at the top of the page.)  If that's too long, read this classic bit on post-modernism, maybe the most clever humor I've ever read.