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Sugi, like Atlas, carries the world upon her shoulders. Ever weary, she continued to slash the pages of FM with a red pen while vehemently discussing the role of self-reference. Well, this time, you lose. This page has your face on it, Sugi. Self-reference returns to haunt...
...least logic of all: he charges that the travesty in Lane’s leaving is that he denies a student who “belonged here” a spot. Exactly who does Weinberger think he is to make such a presumptuous comment? Is Weinberger just the pen name for Dean Fitzsimmons? If that’s the case, then he obviously knows who deserves to be at Harvard. If not, he has no more authority to make these generalizations than we have to state that he has utterly no business representing Harvard as a student himself...
...messing up your work. That's because the stylus that operates the thing works by constantly beaming low-frequency radio signals to the computer, telling where it is. That way, Windows knows where you want the cursor to be even before you touch the screen. Once you do put pen to virtual paper, a pressure sensor starts the flow of digital ink. Journal takes note of the pen's position 133 times a second, so the line looks very smooth...
There are still a few bugs. When you write in Journal, the cursor drags ever so slightly behind the pen, so if you scribble too fast, your letters sometimes appear a second after you make the mark. In Microsoft's defense, this was an early version of the software. No one will accept handwriting software unless it feels just like handwriting, but Microsoft knows that and figures it has eight months to get it right...
...India, citizens are forced to hydrate with tablets and clean themselves with specially manufactured blow-dryers. Commuting via helicopter is standard, and the left palm serves as both ID and credit card. But our passive protagonist, 70-year-old photographer Paresh Bhatt, still enjoys writing with a fountain pen on thick stationery and mourns the loss of fresh coffee. He is determined to hang onto the past, which in this case is the 1980s...