Michio Kaku, Hyperspace

Popular-science book on higher dimensions, string theory, many-worlds theory, and so on, written in the 1980s so not exactly up-to-date, but a useful refresher on the basic concepts and cultural background. Contains massive spoilers for Heinlein's All You Zombies and "He built a crooked house." The author has the interesting thesis that the problem with string theory is that the concept was stumbled on before the development of the math to do it properly.

By coincidence, this was my purse book while Stephenson's Anathem was my bedside book, which made an interesting juxtaposition.

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We've had three days in a row of high temperatures around 90F, which is officially too hot for November even in these parts. There's a lot of tree pollen around, apparently, which probably helps to explain the way I've been feeling lately.

I have lots of ideas for jewelry, but the bracelet I'm working on at the moment isn't quite working out yet. It's about an inch too long, so that when fastened it can slip off over my hand with a little wriggling, and though I could fix that easily enough I'm not completely convinced the concept is a success. It's three strands with silver-plated spacer bars, with the middle section being little green Swarovski crystals and the rest being fine silver-plated chain. The problem -- apart from the length -- is that the crystal section is too stiff, with the stringing wire threaded double most of the way (after a mighty struggle to get the loops pulled snug at the second end), and the chain sections are too floppy and prone to twist. I think bracelets are harder than necklaces because the length is more critical, and also they have to bend more, particularly around my rather skinny wrists.