Losing a loved one is a catastrophic event. It’s so catastrophic that its occurrence inevitably divides one’s life into a “pre-” and a “post-”; in my case, that is, there are two high-level categories of events: those that happened before…
Archive for August, 2008
Aug 29 2008
Friday Random Ten CLXII
The “GMAT tomorrow” edition
- Fastball - [The Harsh Light Of Day #11] Don’t Give Up On Me
- Do Make Say Think - [Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn #03] Auberge le Mouton Noir
- Novembre - [Dreams D'Azur #06] Swim Seagull In The Sky
- Neurosis…
Aug 24 2008
Javascript performance is about to get turbo-charged
Aug 24 2008
Neither Here Nor There
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Year: 1993
- Pages: 256
- See the rest of this year’s listings
- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №56
When my girlfriend went to Germany this summer, her tales of Germany’s quirks made me think immediately of Bill…
Aug 22 2008
Friday Random Ten CLXI
The “Two in a row!” edition
- In Flames - [The Jester Race ~ Black Ash Inheritance #01] Moonshield
- The Gathering - [if_then_else #10] Morphia’s Waltz
- Opeth - [My Arms, Your Hearse #06] Demon of the Fall
- Novembre - [Materia #08] The Promise
- Radiohead - [Pablo…
Aug 15 2008
Friday Random Ten CLX
The “Fall? Already?” edition
- Virgin Black - [Sombre Romantic #09] I Sleep With The Emperor
- Solefald - [Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1 #03] Where Birds Have Never Been
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - [The Assassination of Jesse James #07]…
Aug 11 2008
The Bellmaker
The Bellmaker by Brian Jacques- Publisher: Philomel
- Year: 1995
- Pages: 352
- See the rest of this year’s listings
- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №55
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Martin the Warrior
The next book in my continuing re-reading of the Redwall series is…
Aug 08 2008
Friday Random Ten CLIX
The “Moving my mother back home” edition.
- Liquid Tension Experiment - [Liquid Tension Experiment 2 #02] Biaxident
- Stars - [In Our Bedroom After The War #08] Barricade
- Ihsahn - [The Adversary #02] Called by the fire
- Sergei Rachmaninov - [24 Preludes, Sonata No. 2…
