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2025

March

Pen Glyph Infinite Jest in the American Literary Canon | March 14 | Tagged: books literature generation-x infinite-jest american-fiction david-foster-wallace

Pen Glyph Infinite Jest in 2025: Wallace's Eerily Accurate Predictions | March 14 | Tagged: books literature infinite-jest generation-x american-fiction david-foster-wallace

Pen Glyph What Is Infinite Jest About? A Reader's Guide | March 14 | Tagged: books literature infinite-jest generation-x american-fiction david-foster-wallace

February

Pen Glyph Learn Common Lisp With Touretzky | February 22 | Tagged: lisp education programming books reviews

January

Pen Glyph Quitting the Land of Lisp | January 30 | Tagged: lisp education technology books

2024

November

Pen Glyph My Favorite American Novels | November 17 | Tagged: books culture

February

Pen Glyph Seeing "Selected Shorts" | February 9 | Tagged: entertainment nyc uws books scifi

Pen Glyph My Favorite "Selected Shorts" Moment | February 11 | Tagged: books radio favorites

2022

April

Pen Glyph Revisiting "Tokyo Vice" | April 9 | Tagged: japan books

2019

September

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: Quick Reminder: The US Government sponsored over two decades of psychic warfare research | September 2 | Tagged: books politics

July

Pen Glyph Microdosing and Psychedelics | July 4 | Tagged: psychedelics books san_francisco

May

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: When you’re a member of the coolest library in the world your library card looks like this. | May 7 | Tagged: mobile photography books nypl new_york

April

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: I am so getting this library card | April 4 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york nypl books

2018

November

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: NYPL Reminds You Books Are Free | November 23 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york books

2017

September

Pen Glyph Book Notes Extraction: A Mind at Play | September 18 | Tagged: books

2016

June

Pen Glyph Parag Khanna's Connectography and Refactoring by Martin Fowler | June 1 | Tagged: books technology culture

Pen Glyph Khanna's Connectography, Bootcamps, and Mobility | June 2 | Tagged: books culture technology

May

Pen Glyph Read: Parag Khanna's Connectography | May 31 | Tagged: books technology culture

February

Pen Glyph Read: Super Sad True Love Story | February 21 | Tagged: books

2015

September

Pen Glyph Read Zackas Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript | September 25 | Tagged: javascript books

August

Pen Glyph House of Leaves' Subtle Easter Eggs | August 1 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph An Analysis of House of Leaves Part I: Toward a New Understanding | August 5 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph An Analysis of House of Leaves Part II: Poe's "Haunted" | August 6 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph An Analysis of House of Leaves Part III: Mark's Allegory | August 9 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph An Analysis of House of Leaves Part IV: Escaping | August 10 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph Book: Cataloging the World | August 27 | Tagged: books

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: Shteyngart Approves | August 28 | Tagged: books

February

Facebook Glyph Fabulous Korean Takes on Western Fairy Tales | February 7 | Tagged: books programming

2014

October

Pen Glyph Who Made This Cover for 'The Stranger' | October 25 | Tagged: books philosophy art

June

Facebook Glyph Tolkein's "Beowulf" | June 1 | Tagged: books linguistics

March

Facebook Glyph What Shakespeare Sounded Like | March 7 | Tagged: linguistics books

Facebook Glyph Sandman Exhibit | March 8 | Tagged: mobile photography books

2013

October

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: "Sandman" retrospective coming to San Francisco | October 29 | Tagged: mobile photography books

September

Facebook Glyph How Chris McCandless Died | September 13 | Tagged: books

August

Pen Glyph Read: 'Sum' by David Eagleman | August 28 | Tagged: books

2012

June

Pen Glyph RIP Ray Bradbury | June 8 | Tagged: books education entertainment writing

2011

January

Pen Glyph In Which I Buy a Serious Comic: "Batwoman: Elegy" | January 8 | Tagged: books

2010

October

Pen Glyph Reading "The Shallows:" Virality | October 6 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

Pen Glyph The Shallows: Conspiracy and Nicotine | October 8 | Tagged: books modern_times

Pen Glyph What’s Wrong with Me (Us?): The Shallows | October 8 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

Pen Glyph Recommendations I’m Pondering: "The Shallows" Cont’d | October 8 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

Pen Glyph Notes from "The Shallows" | October 8 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

September

Pen Glyph Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains | September 29 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

Pen Glyph The Personal Side of "The Shallows" | September 29 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

July

Pen Glyph Finished: "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang" | July 1 | Tagged: books

May

Facebook Glyph Blindsight: A different type of hard sci-fi | May 25 | Tagged: books

April

Pen Glyph Finished: Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein | April 2 | Tagged: books critique

March

Pen Glyph Finished Daniel Everett's "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes" | March 24 | Tagged: books mysticism philosophy_proper

January

Pen Glyph Book Review: Ayn Rand and the World she Created by Anne C. Heller | January 15 | Tagged: books

2009

August

Pen Glyph Finished Katherine Howe's: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane | August 20 | Tagged: books

July

Pen Glyph Completionist OCD strikes again | July 7 | Tagged: books latin

February

Pen Glyph Git Down: A Recommendation of Swicegood's Pragmatic Version Control Using Git | February 9 | Tagged: books git

2008

May

Pen Glyph I r a filuhsuhfee grajuit | May 9 | Tagged: books philosophy_proper

March

Pen Glyph Reading a little fiction | March 18 | Tagged: modernism fiction books

2007

December

Pen Glyph Catch-up | December 22 | Tagged: life rails latin books personal

September

Pen Glyph Letterpress: The joy of three dimensional reading | September 7 | Tagged: art_and_design books

July

Pen Glyph Spam reminds me sometimes... | July 12 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph It shouldn’t be this hard... | July 31 | Tagged: books

March

Pen Glyph Oprah + Cormac = BFF | March 30 | Tagged: books

January

Pen Glyph Back from SJ, the Baroque Cycle Finished, and Headed to Houston | January 7 | Tagged: austin books personal

2006

November

Pen Glyph Finished The Brief History of the Dead | November 1 | Tagged: books ruminations

Pen Glyph Addendum to The Brief History of the Dead post | November 5 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph Finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy | November 19 | Tagged: books critique culture

Pen Glyph iRead iWoz | November 26 | Tagged: books design apple

Pen Glyph A Good Austin Citizen: Joining the Public Library | November 28 | Tagged: austin books

October

Pen Glyph Finished "Running with Scissors" | October 25 | Tagged: books

July

Pen Glyph I feel the geometry going wrong in the Childrens’ section... | July 10 | Tagged: austin books

March

Pen Glyph Undertaking The System of the World | March 12 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph Finished Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto | March 12 | Tagged: books

January

Pen Glyph Finished The Confusion by Neal Stephenson | January 18 | Tagged: books

2005

November

Pen Glyph Cointstar == Book Magic! | November 22 | Tagged: books

October

Pen Glyph An in-depth explanation of the Asherah virus, as described in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash | October 17 | Tagged: books critique entertainment

September

Pen Glyph Ethical birth-control OR The Coldplay Experience? | September 6 | Tagged: books critique music mysticism

Pen Glyph Finished The Historian | September 11 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph Finished...Macroscope | September 25 | Tagged: books critique

June

Pen Glyph Early morning graphic novel reading: V for Vendetta | June 4 | Tagged: books culture

Pen Glyph Finished The World is Flat | June 4 | Tagged: books culture

Pen Glyph Finished Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | June 28 | Tagged: entertainment books

May

Pen Glyph A bit of reading | May 1 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph Finished Snow Crash | May 25 | Tagged: books mysticism

2004

November

Pen Glyph A show that scared the bejesus out of me | November 5 | Tagged: entertainment scifi books recollections

October

Pen Glyph Ladytron is an excellent band... | October 1 | Tagged: books music

Pen Glyph Media Consumption Weekend Part 1: New music... | October 3 | Tagged: books music

Pen Glyph Media Consumption Weekend Part 2: Books read in Hawaii | October 3 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph The Time Traveler’s Wife | October 10 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph Dedman’s Complaint | October 12 | Tagged: books entertainment

Pen Glyph Damocles and The Time Traveler’s Wife | October 16 | Tagged: books

September

Pen Glyph Finished a book | September 1 | Tagged: books

August

Pen Glyph Asian People Love Me, and they Love my Shirt | August 21 | Tagged: books

June

Pen Glyph I love pulpy sci-fi books in used bookstores | June 17 | Tagged: books

2003

October

Pen Glyph Looking out the living room | October 22 | Tagged: books personal se_hinton

September

Pen Glyph Sunday... | September 8 | Tagged: books personal

Pen Glyph After Virtue: 11-18 | September 10 | Tagged: philosophy books

August

Pen Glyph After Virtue: Notes for Ch. 1 and 2 | August 11 | Tagged: aftervirtue ethics philosophy virtue_ethics philosophy_proper books

Pen Glyph After Virtue: Chapter 3 | August 12 | Tagged: philosophy books

Pen Glyph After Virtue: An Interlude | August 14 | Tagged: philosophy books

Pen Glyph After Virtue: Chapter 3 and 4 | August 18 | Tagged: philosophy books

Pen Glyph After Virtue: Chapters 5-10 | August 18 | Tagged: philosophy books