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Feld's Second Rule of Public Policy: Public policy is made by human beings (adapted from Clauswitz).

I'm in a sort of in-between state: enough of my energy has come back to really really want to start Getting Things Done, but am still moving more slowly than I'd like. I'm making progress on a few bits of my severely backlogged to-do list, less quickly than I'd like but with a feeling of relief at making any progress for a change.

In between, I figured I'd share a couple of things for y'all's entertainment. First, I've forgotten whom I mentioned this to at Balticon, but several of my friends will probably enjoy it anyhow: Poul Anderson's introduction to atomic theory (in English) without using any non-Germanic words, "Uncleftish Beholdings"

The underlying kinds of stuff are the *firststuffs*, which link together in sundry ways to give rise to the rest. Formerly we knew of ninety-two firststuffs, from waterstuff, the lightest and barest, to ymirstuff, the heaviest. Now we have made more, such as aegirstuff and helstuff.

The firststuffs have their being as motes called *unclefts*. These are mightly small [...]

Second, via Elbows, the sort of USB memory stick that I would expect to find plugged into number_12's computer. Though personally I'd like the idea more if one of the computers I were going to plug it into had a thematically related casemod.