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I promise this will be my last Caltrain story for a while, and the one that pays for all: Erin and I were late for our train today. By, oh, 30 seconds. It pulled up as we were still about a football field away, and I still had to buy a ticket on the platform…

…no hoverboards allowed. This is a sign at the Menlo Park Caltrain station. Erin and I saw this sign yesterday because we were taking the train to Redwood City (as we’ll do again today). On the train, in our customary boarding area spot (we only go one stop, and it’s not worth it to take…

Over at Making Light Teresa Nielsen Hayden has looked into the plastic surgery book and Newsweek’s story about it. Turns out, she discovered that the book is from a vanity publisher. That is, it was self-published by the author. There were no editors making a decision about how to best make a buck. At least,…