I finished In Joy Still Felt this afternoon, and with that completes another year (at least my 13th) reading all three volumes of Isaac Asimov’s in roughly the April time-frame. I started I. Asimov on March 26–the day I got back from Disney World–and completed the last volume today, a total of just under 1…
I spent another hour or so on the plot outlining of NextLife, outlining the various threads from the point of view of the six major characters. Things are really starting to fall into place. A couple more hours of this and I will be able to put together a timeline that fits all these threads…
I was up sometime around 7:30 AM when I noticed that the power was out in the house. (Ironic, because the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN article I had been reading was called “Preventing Blackouts” by Massoud Amin and Phillip F. Schewe (May 2007)) Jen said she’d heard a gunshot-like sound and I figured it was a transformer.…
I got a pretty good night’s sleep last night and I was up at about 7:30 this morning, and spent some time browsing online. In noticed that Tangent Online recently reviewed issue #4 of Intergalactic Medicine Show, touching briefly on each story in the issue. (In fact, the magazine has reviewed all of the first…
One of my favorite bookstores in the whole world, The Iliad Bookshop just got a nice little write-up in the April 2007 issue of Los Angeles Magazine. For 8 years, I lived virtually around the corner from this bookstore, and during that time, I probably purchased 100 or more used books, and spent an equal…
There are three things that I do on my lunch hour throughout the year. (1) I sleep; (2) I end up in a meeting; (3) I read. And on days as pleasant as today, it’s always the latter. I head out of the office and over to Pentagon Row, find a chair, prop by feet…
…for someone like me (or strausmouse) who can’t help but absorb trivia: The Areas of My Expertise I came across it when I did my weekly check into Eric Leuliette’s What I have read website.
I had trouble falling asleep last night but at least I know why. First, I had random echoes of what I was reading running through my head. This happens to me from time to time when I read a lot on a particular day. It doesn’t happen often but I am resigned to it when…
When I got home from work this evening (at 6:40 PM because I went to the gym after work), I found at my door step a shipment from Powell’s containing Will and Ariel Durant’s The Age of Napoleon. It is the final volume, #11, in their famous STORY OF CIVILIZATION series and it completes my…
With my vacation less than 83 days away, I have begun to consider what books I want to take along with me to read while I’m on the trip. To this end, and being a software developer by trade, I have developed a framework to help determine what books shall be brought and what books…
I slept in this morning, not getting out of bed until just after 9 AM. I ran up to IHOP for breakfast, stopping at Petco on the way home because I needed more litter and dry food for Zeke. Once home, I did some more spring cleaning. I cleaned out old files in the office,…
I have a few questions for all my fellow readers out there about how you go about reading something? I ask these questions mainly to see if I am the same as everyone else or if I am very different? 1. When reading something that has footnotes, do you (a) read the footnote as soon…