Simply the coolest book I’ve read in a long time. If I hadn’t forced myself to go to bed at midnight (2 hours after I started it) I would have read it one sitting. As it turned out, I read it in two sittings. It’s a YA novel about a …
A couple of years ago I published a quick how-to on passing a stupid limitation on a medically related website. Documenting it in the blog post took way longer than solving the problem. I threw up the blog post thinking one or two other people might find it interesting. Instead …
I love live music, and this book is a coming of age story centered around the underground music scene in a dystopian near future that seems all too possible.
My biggest issue with this book is the classification of science fiction. The science and technology in the book center around …
Uncanny Valley is Anna Wiener’s memoir of her mid to late 20s working in salt mines of Silicon Valley. At 25, she was an under employed assistant in the declining publishing industry in NYC. She joined a publishing related start up in NY as employee #5, and then got …
Yesterday I got to ride Amtrak for almost 5 hours going North, get off the train, give a 45 minute sales presentation, then get back on the train and go home. Not the most productive use of my time, for sure. On the way North I was working. It turns …
If you look in the left column you’ll see a new link to 2020 Books. Posting book reviews allows me to feel like I wrote something, without really writing. I’ll still post book reviews when I read something particularly interesting, but otherwise I’ll put the reviews on the review page …
In The Body, Bryson does for human biology what he did for science in A Short History of Everything. In about 400 pages he attempts to provide a college 101 level understanding of pretty much everything you might want to know about your body. He mostly succeeds, although given the …
Earlier this week a long time Internet friend posted that she had found her old Hypermart site. Hypermart was “Geocities for businesses.” I knew the three founders from my first Internet job. They started the site with one server and in less than a year (IIRC) they had sold it …
We got a head start on our planned 2020 tour of beachy areas we might move to in 2021 by spending a few days of Christmas break in Charleston SC – the first trip there for either of us. Won’t be the last trip there for sure, and Charleston has …
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or if you aren’t celebrating anything in particular this week, happy Tuesday! BTW, this is blog post 54 for the year, so I averaged an update a week, and I didn’t need a “post everyday in December” stunt this year to do it!
We aren’t camping …
