Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in books, oddities, things i'd like to see on Aug 3rd, 2008
I like books. I like reading. My grandmother would be proud of me. She owned a lot of books. Tens of thousands of them. They filled an entire room, spilling over onto the stairs in her New Jersey home. She would routinely give books as presents as I was growing up. For decades she bought [...]
No picture today, just a lot that’s been in the back of my mind lately.
I’ve been going to the gym again. It was one of those things I kept putting off (for close to six months) so I feel pretty good about it. I’m only going twice a week, but I feel healthier. I’d been [...]
Posted in books on Oct 26th, 2007
Proper kudos to the public library, I just finished reading Spook Country. While the book flap reviewer from the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle praises William Gibson’s ability to “craft sentences of uncanny beauty”, it makes for a convoluted mess of a read. I’m a fairly educated man who loves to read, but I [...]
Amazon.com WidgetsI just finished reading Freakonomics, subtitled A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Very neat, clean, and approachable, this is not your typical economics book. But then again, Steven Levitt doesn’t appear to be a typical economist. The man attempts to answer simple questions using economic datasets. Such as (quoted [...]
Amazon.com WidgetsAfter a long time waiting and listening to coworkers’ ravings, I saw Knocked Up. It did have a good mix of cheap and more insightful quotes, but the two kids stole the screen.
The two daughters are the actual daughters of writer/director Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann (who plays Debbie). The movie [...]
Posted in books, life in general, office, plans on Jul 28th, 2007
It’s actually been a month since I started my office cleaning project. It is only the second weekend that I’ve put any real time into it. It looked like it was going to be hot and humid out this afternoon so I decided to take another couple hours at it. I’m proud to say that [...]
Posted in books on Jul 24th, 2007
Having finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows early this morning — well after midnight, and on a school night too — I feel obligated to make some spoiler-free commentary. I purchased the book at BJ’s on Saturday morning, off one of the two enormous pallets that they had lying around the warehouse. No fuss. [...]
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