Posts Tagged ‘Books’

I’ve Been Up To…

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Cel­e­brat­ing Obama’s elec­tion.
Try­ing to work my way through 100 push-ups, but hav­ing to restart a cou­ple of weeks.  Espe­cially week 4 which I’m cur­rently on restart #3 due to hol­i­day & snow-shovelling mad­ness.
Pan­ick­ing over the econ­omy.
Beat­ing my head against wxPython & Py2EXE.
Twit­ter­ing
Enjoy­ing a very Hor­ri­ble Christ­mas1.
Read­ing a lot.
Pin­ing for a new cam­era.
Buy­ing new shoes as the […]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Dec 29, 2008

Now-Reading Tweaks

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Plugins, WordPress

I use Rob Miller’s excel­lent Now-Reading plu­gin to track all the books I’ve read and am read­ing here at Cof­fee­Bear. After my recent site upgrade I decided to tweak the sin­gle book tem­plate for my library. I noticed that the lat­est ver­sion of Now-Reading allows you to note who read a given book on multiuser […]

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Read more | Comments (6) | Apr 25, 2008

Reading List

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Quickie

If you hop over to my library page, you’ll notice my read­ing list has grown con­sid­er­ably. That’s because I just added in all the books we bought at the annual book sale held by our local pub­lic library. There’s far too many for me to fin­ish them all this year, but I hope […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Dec 2, 2007

The Dark Is Rising

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Movies

The Dark Is Ris­ing sequence is a set of 5 books1 writ­ten by Susan Cooper between 1965 and 1977. It is with­out ques­tion my favorite series of books from when I was younger and it is also now being made into a movie. More acu­rately, the sec­ond book in the series is being […]

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Read more | Comments (6) | Jul 30, 2007

Squeeee!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Tonight, John Scalzi made a stop at the Prairie Lights book­store in Iowa City, IA for his book tour to pro­mote The Last Colony. Michelle & I got there wicked early1 and chat­ted with a cou­ple of store employ­ees briefly. For­tu­nately, they were cool with me bring­ing in my own copy of The […]

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Read more | Comments (2) | May 4, 2007

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