Posts Tagged ‘books’
Non-Fiction: The Four-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss Ferriss left me thinking a lot about hacking in 2011. Not just one’s body, but everything. I didn’t put much of this into practice in 2011, but for 2012, I’ll be trying more of it. Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk Left me saying “fuck yeah!” and inspired me [...]
Here’s the media I’ve digested in 2010.1 I’ll save my commentary for the end of the post. Books • Eragon by Christopher Paolini • The Data Book by Noguchi-san and Fumiyo Noguchi • The God Engines by John Scalzi • Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi • Eldest by Christopher Paolini • Infoquake by [...]
Here’s the list of books I took with me to read on the beach in Jamaica: The House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds The Final Solution by Michael Chabon Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by Bike Snob NYC Bicycling Science, 3rd Edition by David Gordon Wilson The Black Swan: Second [...]
Crazy times. Things have never been more chaotic in our household — TempCat™ coming and going, social and wedding planning schedules that are utterly insane, financial planning, honeymoon planning, plus both our jobs, my framebuilding thing, and all that jazz. You’d think that this would be the causation of some pretty interesting arguments. In reality, [...]
Digging into Karl Schroeder’s Queen of Candesce right now. I love the guy’s world-building, and Virga is a memorable locale. It’s the last of the trio of books I bought at Uncle Hugo’s a few weeks ago, and turning into the best of the three. The others were Edelman’s Infoquake and Morgan’s Altered Carbon. The [...]
Recently, J.D. Salinger packed his bags and headed off for a meeting with the Great Literary Agent in the Sky. This got me to thinking about The Catcher in the Rye, and how I really can’t stand it. I mean, I understand the literary significance of the book, but that may well be its only [...]
So I’ve been tearing through my reading list the past few months, putting the kibosh on buying new books and focusing on the ones I’ve purchased in the past and not yet read. Right now, I’m reading Eragon, which people apparently loved. I remember the ranting about how it was amazing that a 15-year old [...]
So this morning, before leaving for the office, an idea for a book popped into my head. And I had to start writing. About six words in, I discovered that this idea for a sci-fi novel with an huge scale in space and time, with political intrigue, war, aliens — all the things you’d associate [...]
A short while ago, John Scalzi had a post in his blog about the book Mirrored Heavens, in which there was much bantering by readers about regarding the ability of Russia to regain “superpower” status. While that was all entertaining, I felt it missed the point, and asked about whether it made sense to militarize [...]
So last year, I made my comeback to racing on July 4th, at the Northfield Criterium. I DNF’ed (did not finish), as I was way out of shape and in no condition to race. In another of my blogs, three days later, I wrote a piece about the experience and why, at the age of [...]
