It's a real shame, since it's a very interesting story. But reading how an author is basically gushing about himself and the people he is working with, reading descriptions of science whose narrowness makes them sound as if they're rooted in a fair amount of ignorance, and finding way too many "sentences" that consist of just one word (where's a good editor when you need one?) is just too much.

The Archimedes Codex is the kind of book that's a good read when, after a sleepless trans-Atlantic flight, they serve "breakfast": The period in time when you're insanely exhausted and tired, but when you know you just have to keep busy somehow, so some extremely light reading will do (Radar magazine is good for that, too) - the kind of reading where, when you miss a couple pages, you still haven't really missed anything, and your reptilian brain is happy with simple entertainment, whereas your inner adult is way too tired to try to keep up intellectual appearances.

In a sense, the photos looked as "un-digital" as possible - instead of having this kind of edgy crispness that digital photos usually have (even those that aren't completely overprocessed), the photos were amazingly smooth, with what looked like an infinite number of colours. It was quite unbelievable - as was talking to Tod and getting some idea of what actually goes into making those photos.

I think I'll start saving up some money to get selected photos from my own work printed that way...