Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Are you a hoopy frood, like me?
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Links
If so, you better have your towel with you today! As today, is Towel Day. For those not familiar, Douglas Adams was one of the funniest writers of our time. He wrote a wonderful series of radio plays which were converted in a a series of books and a TV show and later into a […]
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Yeeouch
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
Over the weekend, Ariesna and I went to the CPL to check out their latest book sale. She got a bit ahead of me looking around as I was carrying out picks. I was about to move to the next room to catch up to her when it happened. Suddenly I felt a sharp, red-hot […]
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Review: Old Man’s War
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
Old Man’s War My rating: 5 out of 5. For a while now I’ve been despairing of finding new science fiction authors I like. I would go through my local bookstores and the only ones that didn’t seem like pure twaddle were either books I’ve read previously or by authors I was previously familiar with. Authors […]
Review: Deception Point
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
Deception Point My rating: 2 out of 5. This started off as a fun book and for a long time into it I was able to suspend my disbelief to enjoy it. It read something like a weak Tom Clancy novel. At least up until a certain point in during the climatic finale of the story. […]
Dang Computers
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software
I finished my evening in front of ye olde boob tube1 at 10 and was thinking about heading to bed early. I decided just before doing so I’d go read some email, maybe run CastPodder and grab some stuff to listen to at work. That was nearly two hours ago and I’m still not continuing […]
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