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Pukka’s Links of the Week

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links

From Pukka: Things Hagrid the Half-Giant Would Say If He Served Jesus Instead of Harry Pot­ter. Con as in Con­ven­tion! Ding! Regard­ing New Orleans Bad­ger Bad­ger Bad­ger Cof­fee So Strong.….…. [Edi­tor] I don’t know seems like it’s kind of weak cof­fee to me if you actu­ally have to drink it to wake up from the […]

Tags: Apple, Books, Code, coffee, del.icio.us, failure, Flickr, Food, Gaming, HAL, home, iPod, iTunes, Links, Lists, Movies, PHP, podcast, reading, recipe, Sci-fi, series, tv, videos

Read more | Comments (0) | Sep 9, 2005

What A Day

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I had orig­i­nally planned on attend­ing a Pam­pered Chef party with my wife last Sun­day. I had been think­ing it would be some pleas­ant social­iz­ing over some tasty food with a bit of some­body try­ing to sell me some pricey kitchen stuff. That is to say a not entirely unpleas­ant to spend part of one’s […]

Tags: Books, breakfast, Chicago, Code, dinner, Food, friends, Links, Love, Movies, party, quotes, radio, RPGS, tools, weekend, Wife

Read more | Comments (1) | Aug 31, 2005

Meme of Books

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Num­ber of Books on the Shelf Depends on the shelf and I don’t really have any good idea of how many total books I own, but I’ve cat­a­loged a small (very, very small) por­tion of them and that cat­a­log has ~200 entries. Last Book Pur­chased I bought two at the same time: Harry Pot­ter and the […]

Tags: Books, Code, HAL, Links, Meme, reading, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Jul 28, 2005

Welcome back, Potter!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) My rat­ing: 4 out of 5. After a two year wait, Ms. Rowl­ing has finally released her lat­est book, Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6).1 It’s a bit shorter than her pre­vi­ous book but it’s qual­ity not quan­tity we’re after and the Half-Blood Prince deliv­ers. Rather […]

Tags: Books, HAL, reading, series

Read more | Comments (2) | Jul 25, 2005

Public Library (Revisited)

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I’d fin­ished read­ing all the books and lis­ten­ing to the CD, I bor­rowed from the library dur­ing my pre­vi­ous visit. So last night, I went back to return all of it and get more. After drop­ping off my returns at the cir­cu­la­tion desk (slightly ham­pered by an old lady’s cane hang­ing down over the return […]

Tags: Books, Code, coffee, fiction, HAL, Links, quotes, reading, series, Wife

Read more | Comments (0) | Jul 6, 2005