Reading Calvin Trillin’s anecdote about how smart guys were the reason for the recent financial collapse, I was reminded that I wanted to read something by Michael Lewis and decided to order Liar’s Poker, his 1989 book about the last time Wall Street went nuts.

I ordered it approximately an hour and a half ago. It just showed up on my desk.

I have no idea how this happened. Maybe the Zappos purchase has infected Amazon?

Update (10/15) : And today Amazon announced a new same-day delivery option. So that was either part of a pilot program or a “first one’s free” teaser.