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February

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

January

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

2024

November

My Favorite American Novels | November 17 | Tagged: books, culture

February

Seeing "Selected Shorts" | February 9 | Tagged: entertainment, new_york, uws, books, scifi

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

2022

April

Revisiting "Tokyo Vice" | April 9 | Tagged: japan, books

2019

September

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

July

Microdosing and Psychedelics | July 4 | Tagged: psychedelics, books, san_francisco

May

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

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

2018

November

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

2017

September

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

2016

June

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

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

May

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

February

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

2015

September

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

August

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February

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

2014

October

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

June

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

March

What Shakespeare Sounded Like | March 7 | Tagged: linguistics, books

Sandman Exhibit | March 8 | Tagged: mobile, photography, books

2013

October

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

September

How Chris McCandless Died | September 13 | Tagged: books

August

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

2012

June

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

2011

January

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

2010

September

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

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

July

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

May

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

April

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

March

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

January

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

2009

August

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

July

Completionist OCD strikes again | July 7 | Tagged: books, latin

February

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

2008

May

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

March

Reading a little fiction | March 18 | Tagged: modernism, fiction, books

2007

December

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

September

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

July

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

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

March

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

January

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

2006

November

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

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

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

iRead iWoz | November 26 | Tagged: books, design, apple

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

October

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

July

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

March

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

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

January

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

2005

November

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

October

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

September

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

Finished The Historian | September 11 | Tagged: books

Finished...Macroscope | September 25 | Tagged: books, critique

June

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

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

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

May

A bit of reading | May 1 | Tagged: books

Finished Snow Crash | May 25 | Tagged: books, mysticism

2004

November

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

October

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

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

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

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

Dedman’s Complaint | October 12 | Tagged: books, entertainment

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

September

Finished a book | September 1 | Tagged: books

August

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

June

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

2003

October

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

September

Sunday... | September 8 | Tagged: books, personal

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

August

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

After Virtue: Chapter 3 | August 12 | Tagged: philosophy, books

After Virtue: An Interlude | August 14 | Tagged: philosophy, books

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

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