Thu, 15 Jan 2009 – 20:34:28 +0000
Patrick McGoohan is dead.
The Prisoner inspires Trekker / Browncoat levels of devotion in me. (When I saw last week that AMC is streaming the original series online, my first thought was, “which episode order are they using?”) It was my first exposure to science fiction TV other than Star Trek, and it shaped my tastes [...]
Mon, 12 Jan 2009 – 19:11:52 +0000
Apparently 2009 is officially The Year of Serious Reading.
In addition to working through the Personal MBA Reading List, I’ve just joined the Gene Wolfe Solar Cycle Book Club. (I even introduced myself, which is a step I very rarely take.)
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 – 14:53:47 +0000
Gizmodo: Palm Stock Jumps 34.85% On Palm Pre News.
I am pleasantly surprised that the new Palm Pre is getting such positive initial buzz. I’d long accepted that Palm was on death watch, and for good reason: “stagnation” doesn’t even begin to describe how badly they’ve botched product development this millennium. It will be interesting to [...]
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 – 13:21:44 +0000
Elizabeth Bear may well be right when she says that this is the best Amazon review ever. Hysterical satire.
(Update: Not surprisingly, the spoilsports at Amazon have apparently pulled the review. Rather surprisingly, the spoilsports at Amazon have apparently put the review back up! Good for them. Here’s another copy, just in case.)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 – 20:36:09 +0000
I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions as such, but a quick review of what I read in 2008 prompted me to commit to reading the Personal MBA Recommended Reading List in 2009.
grep “^2008″ ~/reference/books/read | less
One unexpected side-effect of implementing GTD and swapping my pre-millennial cell phone for a Palm Treo was that I [...]
