Meme Time!
take the WHAT BAD BOOK ARE YOU test.
and go to mewing.net. not as good as reading a good book, but way better than a bad one.
Archive for the 'Books' Category
I just wanted to share with everyone this great book I’m reading. It’s Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes. It’s sort of Office Space meets Stephen King.
Filled with a dark humor, this book effectively satirizes the modern office while at the same time introducing a strong element of the bizarre. English geeks will have a field day with all the literary references. Not that you have to be a lit freak to enjoy the book—I’m certainly not one ;). How could you not win with an opening line like this?
One brutally hot Summer’s morning, Paul Trilby—ex-husband, temp typist, cat murderer—slouched sweating in his t-shirt on his way to work, waiting behind the wheel of his car for the longest red light in central Texas.
It’s a quick read, and a welcome break from my more-regular diet of New Yorkers and Funny Times.
Recently I’ve been working through Cory Doctorow’s writings. For those of you who haven’t heard of him before, he’s a science-fiction writer who, among other things, writes regularly for Boing Boing. He has a lot of really interesting ideas, and I generally agree with his stances on society and technology. If you have 5 minutes handy, go read Printcrime. It’s from his recently published collection of short stories, Overclocked.
I read through Overclocked in eBook form on my Smartphone. Reading it in that format was a m interesting double-dose of the future. I used the Mobipocket Reader, which presented the book well on the high resolution screen that my Treo 680 has.
Overclocked was an incredible collection. It covered a wide range of potential future scenarios. Anyone who’s interested in science-fiction or even just the future in general should read it. I’ve also read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which was excellent, and I’m now reading Eastern Standard Tribe. After the first few chapters it’s turning out very well, too.
Finally, if you’re not a paper junkie, I can’t stress how great Boing Boing is. It’s a blog that links to all sorts of eclectic things, but its post-to-interesting ratio is at probably 80% for me. That’s way above any other site out there. Go check it out and learn about such things as knitting Space Invaders socks, free speech issues, international socio-political flame-wars, and way more.
ok so I was messing around the other day and finally got my webcam working in linux :) http://haven.loki.ws/joshcam/wc.html is the link.
Not alot new going on, still trying to decide about house(s). It’s been really hot and humid here the past few days, so that tends to stifle everything. Been reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Trilogy, which has been very good. Jen has become interested in deviantart.. check out her gallery, it’s got some really great stuff :) http://jmulcahy.deviantart.com
(mine is http://raynyskie.deviantart.com)
not much else going on I guess, at least nothing breathtakingly important to the rest of the world ;)
