We just missed the full moon last night, we saw it peeking through the venetian blinds as we retired from our long daily labors of bringing in the sheets of paper. Or is that an old hymn? Bringing in the sheaves? We think we learned it from the play / movie "Guys and Dolls".
Anyway we have hundreds of books still waiting to be cataloged and hundreds already for you to order in our highly efficient on-line store. We periodically post an inventory for people to wander through, so they know what is for sale, and you may have come from some obscure referring website via the mysterious way that many folks, completely unknown to us somehow repackage our humble words into some kind of dynamic reference to these very sentences.
We have found that people from India, China, the Middle East have some kind of business model that takes our words or our merchandise and cross-indexes them into our website store my-lynx-associates.COM and presumably make some kind of money. We are not Internet Einsteins about this, though if you read our books, you might become an Einstein yourself. But our brains boggle at the possibilities that people actually do this.
But we are too busy reading our own books to write up some extended descriptions and blogs, so our frontal lobes are beginning to bulge on their own, though we would never claim to be of genius caliber. We thought maybe we might need a special girdle or belt to hold our bulging upper sections in place, since they are starting to sag in an unsightly manner.
On the other hand, egotistically speaking, if one were to claim that one were a genius, then one would automatically be excluded from the true genius category.
And if one were to deny that one were a genius, then common sense would dictate that the person was not a genius, because he would have excluded himself from consideration, and would therefore lack the innate self-confidence of geniushood.
And if one were to use the passive voice too much, one could therefore be dismissed as a mere pedant, a mouther of lofty phrases who lacks the true insight of geniosity. So we should just continue without further diversion to any further obscure dissection of our verbal pyrotechnics, which may have just fizzled.
Those who provide links to our site and use our quotes, we don't ask anyone to do this. Those strange sites that use our words, they just repackage our lists, our precious darlings, our little rectangles of cellulose (that is books to you). And by some mysterious means you are reading these very words. If you live overseas, you need to e-mail us, using the address info@my-lynx-associates.com to arrange for special shipping. We have yet to ship any packages of books (we have a few CDs as well) to Antarctica, Equatorial Africa, Mongolia, Laos, or anywhere on the Tibetan Plateau, but we have received queries from many other out-of-the-way places.
We have received some queries from China, from manufacturers and book-buyers, but we have not signed up for any of their offers. We are based in the Heart Of Texas, Austin, in the United States of America. So if you live in the contiguous 48 states, you are in luck. If you live in Alaska and Hawaii, you have to wait for the Postal Service to put the books on a ship, or a plane if you want to go via Priority Mail. Same for Puerto Rico, books go to Florida, then put in a cargo hold, and take a slow boat. We will ship, you must wait. We don't know about the Outlying Islands, Guam, Micronesia, and other affiliated portions of the United States, but we could definitely find out. You might be covered by the ridiculously paltry Media Mail rates, but we have to ask the proper authorities who deliver our goods.
We ship to APOs for our military, embassies, and other remote outposts of American culture. But you might have to pay extra, we don't know. We have to ask the Men & Women in Blue Wool pants, our well-respected Postal Service employees who trudge thanklessly through the wilderness to deliver your precious package through the dark of night, and the blazing sun of day.
By the way if you have books to sell, and you are in the Austin area, let us know. More likely, if you want to buy our books, click on the link, and it will whisk you to our online store where you can use credit cards or PayPal to enjoy the fruits of our labor. And someday, just beyond tomorrow, we will use or extensive semi-mastery of the English language to start selling books that we write ourselves and close the grand circle of life, to not only sell other people's books, but our own as well. If there is enough demand. If we have enough fans.
But let us post what we have, for the world to see. A numbered list in all its uniform glory, line after line of titles. If you like symmetrical lists, you are finally reaching the high point of our essay. Here is the website address again, in case you did not see it already: Our Online Store:
www.my-lynx-associates.com
December 2009 update to this blog entry: This post has been copied all over the Internet for whatever nefarious purposes that people cut and paste content from one place to another. We are not really complaining, but it is often unsettling to see one's words in all sort of other contexts. We removed the list of books posted here that was something of a attention getter as outdated, but you may want to go to the new place to see a more frequently updated list:
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