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Tip Jar

“Hi. What can I get for you?” She said.

“Oh, you already have,” he said.

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Bookliving

I have to be honest: up until a couple weeks ago, I’d never heard of Jeff Vandermeer. Now, however, I’m glad to have. It’s surprising, too, given that Jeff is a science-fiction author, and I have something of an interest in that genre. While I’m not sure how much I’d get into a cop story in a land of mushroom people, after having experienced his other latest work, Booklife, I’m keen to give Finch a try now too.

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Interface with anything.

Several years ago I was hired to work for a small company that was just starting out in the Internet software business. The title I was assigned for this position was that of Web Interface Designer. At the time I didn’t think too much of it, partly because I was busy being swept away by the river of money and play that the big dot-com boom was creating, yet the idea of this title left an impression on me, and, as I’m apt to do with much of what I experience in life, gave way to consideration of its meaning. I knew what the “Web” was, and I knew what I was supposed to be doing as a “Designer” for the company, but the whole title, altogether, made me curious. My daily routine involved creating graphic elements, placing those elements in a useful and meaningful manner in a coded language that could be interpreted and displayed by a web browser to a visitor to the company’s website and the software that it was offering to the public. All of that can seem fairly complex to someone who doesn’t know anything about it. Yet what I wanted to understand more fully, was what it meant to interface with something, anything at all.

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