Shorespirit's Journal: rain!

paid Borders a visit today to buy a birthday gift for a friend with pretensions of learnedness. I was pleased to discover the Idiot Guides on the remainder displays, while the new self-help-type series featured was titled, in ghastly red lipstick letters, KISS - for "keep it simple series". our collective self-esteem must be beginning to climb.

there was also a book by a psychiatrist who beat commercial computer chess programs by attacking quickly in off-book ways. this seemed to please him very much, as it confirmed that there was something essentially different about human as compared with machine thought. I wouldn't credit a computer with intelligence for playing chess, personally, no matter how good it is.

I had occasion to see some sumptuous Beverly Hills apartments. I'm down a roommate, so a decorating spree is definitely called for - if only I had time enough...