Plague(?) Diary, Entry 0007: Smart Kid

"Dad?"

"Yes son?"

"I noticed something about your blog."

"What's that?"

"Your quote columns have three digits for the chapter numbers."

"So?"

"Your Plague Diary entries have four digits."

Pause.

"If you need more digits, do you think that that series will last longer?"

Pause.

"'You are perceptivo, Court Composer.'"

^^^actual conversation Saturday afternoon

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This just in:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/six-reasons-panic_816387.html?page=1

Jonathan Last, who is even more, um, concerned about this than I am.

Smart man.