Pursuant to my discussion of synesthesia, I decided on a lark to tabulate my color mappings. The first is for days of the week; the second is for letters of the alphabet. I don’t have number-color associations.
Archive for June, 2008
Jun 24 2008
Musicophilia
Musicophilia: Stories of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks- Publisher: Knopf
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 400
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- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №47
I have read Oliver Sacks before. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was a fascinating book, but it…
Jun 20 2008
Desktop Linux revisited
About 2 years ago I wrote a piece called Five things that Desktop Linux really needs, attempting to air out my five biggest grievances with Desktop Linux. If you follow FOSS news, every year is heralded as “The Year of…
Jun 18 2008
Napoleon’s Buttons
Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson- Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
- Year: 2004
- Pages: 384
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- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №46
I happened upon Napoleon’s Button entirely by accident when I was looking for cover art for His Excellency: George Washington;…
Jun 16 2008
Night of the Avenging Blowfish
Night of the Avenging Blowfish by John Welter- Publisher: Algonquin Books
- Year: 1994
- Pages: 304
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- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №45
I’ve read this one before, and yet a couple of weeks ago I got an inexplicable urge to read it again.
I’m…
Jun 16 2008
Blockquote metadata extractor 1.2
My little blockquote title|cite extractor for jQuery has been updated just slightly when it appeared to have funny results. It may have to do with the element.attr() changes introduced in jQuery 1.2.6.
It’s not a particularly disastrous bug or anything, but I’ve altered…
Jun 12 2008
His Excellency: George Washington
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis- Publisher: Vintage
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 352
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- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №44
Hot on the heels of John Adams comes this new book about George Washington; I’ve mentioned before that I don’t usually read a…
Jun 09 2008
R.I.P. Eric Gunnink
Dad,
Until just a few days ago, 23 years with you had seemed like a pretty long time; it took ages to get where I am now, grown up and on my own, a respectable adult. Now that you’ve died,…