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...list for 70 weeks, with 2.2 million copies in print. (A companion journal zoomed onto best-seller lists last month--an astonishing feat for a virtually blank book.) Simple Abundance's entry for this day is "The Home as a Hobby," in which she suggests that cleaning out the basement for an art studio, if seen as a pastime, would be fun instead of drudgery. On July 30, she wants you to get rid of "Habits That Steal Precious Moments," so that instead of reaching for a glass of wine, you are satisfied with sparkling mineral water...
...Martha Stewart are going to build a Palais de Poulet, then match their wall colors to the aubergine eggs laid by her free-range chickens. And it's unlikely that Abundance's 2.2 million copies are in the hands of many people who actually hauled junk out of the basement last Tuesday. But Ban Breathnach is right: you would feel better after clearing a space for yourself. So much so that just thinking about it is enough to lift the spirit...
Your illustration of the Mars Sojourner vehicle, "Bargain-Basement Rover" [SPACE, July 14], included a description I got a kick out of. You noted that the vehicle's radio modem "sends signals only at a sluggish 9,600 bits per sec." I was working at the Space Technology Labs in 1957, when we sent our first satellite to the moon. With a 5W transmitter, we were able to receive data at only 1 bit per sec. by the time we got to the moon. The incoming data were so slow that we were decoding them...
...parody, stunt double, postage stamp--the first Elvis impersonator. In the new era of the singer-songwriter, hack tunesmiths were still handing him drab variations on Don't Be Cruel. The Beatles left him for dead; and his darling, deviant version of Blowin' in the Wind (from a Graceland basement tape) shows he didn't quite get Dylan. Elvis was Vegas before he played Vegas--the ultimate lounge act. His movie and music producers, and the Colonel, called the shots in what should have been Elvis' prime. He didn't rebel; he did it their...
...equipped for preparing a typical meal--forks were in short supply, as were other utensils, with the exception of one disturbingly large meat cleaver, and we counted exactly four plates. But mugs and tumblers were tucked into every cabinet, along with a blender and even a funnel. In the basement, snap-shots were tacked on the walls featuring hordes of white-hatted students--presumably the boys--tossing back pitchers with their chums. The stereo system had suffered severe beer-related injuries. In the neglected backyard, amidst scattered beer bottles and broken glass, was a full-sized counter-shaped bar, overturned...