Archive for May, 2008

May 30 2008

Terrible news

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My father, Eric, passed away yesterday at the age of 51.

I will be more or less completely useless for a while.

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May 28 2008

Martin the Warrior

Brian Jacques • Martin the WarriorMartin the Warrior by Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1994
Pages: 384
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It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Salamandastron

Martin the Warrior marks something of a turning point for the Redwall series: Jacques, for the first time, seems mindful that he…

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May 25 2008

On Cleveland, briefly

You may recall that I’ve been to Cleveland before (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); this year, I was there once again, for the same reason, namely the annual CampusEAI conference.

Our addition to the program this year was relatively recent occurrence, and so this conference came as a bit…

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May 25 2008

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
Year: 1998
Pages: 416
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I was supposed to read Into Thin Air when I was a junior in high school, as one of a tripartite summer/fall curriculum about Man vs. Nature themes: the other two books were Junger’s…

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May 22 2008

A Spot of Bother

Mark Haddon • A Spot of Bother A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2007
Pages: 368
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I can recall with tremendous clarity how surprised I was by Mark Haddon’s debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It wasn’t that the story was anything spectacular—it was…

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May 21 2008

Off like a prom dress

I’ll be in Cleveland until Friday at this. Posts to follow(?).

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May 19 2008

The Age of Spiritual Machines

Ray Kurzweil • The Age of Spiritual Machines The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Pages: 400
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Part of the problem with books making predictions about the future is they only have two markets: (1), people who want to read predictions about the future, and (2) people who want to…

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May 16 2008

Unclehood!

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My sister’s baby girl, Isabella, was born at 9:43am this morning. 7lbs, 6oz., 20 inches long.

It should almost go without saying that young Bella is getting one of these from her soon-to-be-favorite uncle.

For no particular reason, here’s a picture:

Ben and Bella

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May 12 2008

Eighteen children is not cute

If you haven’t already heard of the Duggar family from their show on the Discovery Channel, or from other various and sundry news reports that pop up every time Mr. & Mrs. Fecundity drop a new child into the world (every nine months), then let me sum it up for…

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