It has gotten busy here at work. I have finished up one project, and am in the middle of managing a second. Tomorrow, I head to Pittsburgh for two days of requirements meetings on a third project that I will be managing. And in the meantime, there is a fourth project on which I am…
I haven’t been doing much reading lately. I’ve started a couple of books but couldn’t get into them. For some reason, this is pretty typical for the beginning of the summer for me. Anyway, I decided yesterday that I would once again attempt Will Durant’s Story of Civilization series of history books. I have a…
Next to, perhaps, Soduku, the thing that I see people doing most frequently on the train is reading Bibles. I’ve observed this for quite some time now, without saying much about it, but it fascinates me in a number of ways. Some of the same people seem to be reading the Bible constantly, year round.…
Today, I was thinking about some of the books that I read growing up, long before I kept a list of what I read. The list doesn’t seem very long, really, at least the ones that stick out in my mind, but each of those early books were pretty special.
I am going up to jen_ashlock and Jason’s in New York for the Fourth of July weekend, in order to help them move from Astoria to their new digs in Manhattan and I’ll be in NYC from July 1-4. Just before that, I have to go to Pittsburgh for two days worth of meetings. So…
I’m about 1/3 of the way through JPod and it is hilarious! It also really hits home. I imagine much of it won’t be very funny to people who are not software developers or IT people, but if you are, this book is more Dilbert than Dilbert. Part of the premise is the frustrations that…
Every now and then, I’ll start a book, and for no other reason than I find a more interesting book, I’ll quit the first to read the second. That happened today. I was in Annapolis and at a small bookshop, came across Douglas Coupland’s new novel, JPod, which would appear to be about software developers…
Having completed (and enjoyed) 3 Nights In August (thanks to strausmouse for the recommendation), today I started reading the first fiction I’ve read since the end of February. I chose James Morrow’s The Last Witchfinder because I loved his Godhead series of books, as well as City of Truth. I’m not very far into it…
Last night, I bought Def Leppard’s new cover album, “Yeah!” from the Apple Music store, and I listened to the whole thing on the way into work this morning. The good news is that it wasn’t terrible. That bad news is that I wasn’t particularly impressed. The album is supposed to demonstrate Def Leppard’s roots,…
I started reading Buzz Bissinger’s book 3 Nights In August at lunch today and I noticed that the book has a preface, a foreword, and a prologue. I’ve seen this on one or two occasions in the past, but today it made me wonder two things: 1. What is the difference between a preface and…
It is, by now, a well-known fact that I don’t beleive in the supernatural at all. I don’t believe in ghosts because I don’ t believe in life after death. I am, I suppose, a Jewish atheist, which means I get to feel guilty about being an atheist. In any event, if I did believe…
I finished George Burns’ Living It Up less than 24 hours after I started it. It is quite possibly the funniest book I’ve ever read. I think I didn’t laugh on page 109, but on every other page in the book, I was nearly in tears. This is not hyperbole. This morning I took my…