I’ve been reading Walter Isaacson’s biography Einstein of late and enjoying it very much. (Although even it’s non-mathematical description of relativity has pushed my understanding to the limit.) At noon today, I dove into the book and disappeared within it. I read 35 pages during my lunch hour, which for me is impressive for non-fiction. …
Yesterday, I had to come up to speed on some new software technology we’ll be using for a project here at work. I had to come up to speed pretty fast. I have some meetings today in which I am expected to make some estimates based on my knowledge of this software. So I had a lot of reading…
In the November 1 issue of NEW SCIENTIST is an amusing review by Fred Pearce of a book called The Big Necessity by Rose George, which apparently is about the history of the toilet. I can’t give you a flavor of the one page review without quoting from it a few times: The Big Necessity…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY goes out to the Norm half of vickyandnorm today! Sore today from all of the Wii playing yesterday. (Can you believe it? Sore from a video game?) Another lazy day today. We slept in but were up in time to watch Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. It was a beautiful day out, but…
It was a slow day today, but that was nice, especially since it’s the last weekend before returning to work. We lazed around for much of the day today, although we did manage to get in some Wii playing early this afternoon. I did some chores at home, and started reading Walter Isaacson’s Einstein. I…
Today was supposed to be my last Orioles game of the season. But weather and other tasks kept me away. And while I was fairly certain this game would be postponed–or at least delayed–it turns out it wasn’t. The Orioles lost 10-1. They lost every game I attended this season, some 10 out of 13. At least…
Another busy day at work today. I managed to find myself in meetings from 11 AM until 3 PM. Looks like I’ve got the same schedule on the books for tomorrow, too. I finished John Scalzi’s The Ghost Brigades at lunch today. I loved it. I was very tempted to rate it 4.5 stars, but in nearly 400 books, I’ve…
We had a production push this morning for the project portfolio software that I’ve been working on for the last year or so. There are eight business units that are part of the overall push, and today was the third one that we pushed into production. It meant a long morning for me, running some…
It was another productive day at work today. Rainy, too. It was also Kelly’s flex day so she had the whole day off and was able to sleep in (until 8:30!!). I started reading The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi today. We mostly relaxed in the evening. I lazily watched an episode of Entourage while Kelly was…
I just finished reading part one of Robert J. Sawyer’s serialized novel Wake. As usual with Rob’s stuff, it’s outstanding. It pulls you in, and keeps hold of you, and entertains you and makes you think, and makes you crazy for the fact that you have to wait nearly a month before part 2 comes out!…
I finally finished Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge yesterday. I struggled through the book. It was so different from what I was used to. But I kept pressing on because there seemed to be some kind of significant mystery unfolding and I wanted to know what it was. Alas, by the time I got to the end of the book,…
I wasn’t as successful completing my list as I had hoped to be today. I did produce my massive list of reports, I took my suits to the cleaners, I picked up Kelly’s stuff from the cleaners, and we worked on narrowing down our First Dance list. I didn’t complete anything else on the list, although I made progress reading…