Oh dear blog, how I’ve been neglecting you.

There was an incredible storm that blew through our neck of the woods yesterday afternoon. I managed to leave work just in time to experience high winds and torrential rains while locked into a wheeled steel vessel moving perpendicular to the wind at speeds ranging from 0 to 80mph. Good Times.

My experiences with the iMac are improving. endo’s developers are apparently foregoing their outside lives in an effort to win my purchase. There has been a new release every day since I installed it. It feels good to be loved.

Jon has tagged me with a book meme. Unfortunately I’m having a hell of a time mustering enough literary fortitude to answer his call. I’m not very well read, and I usually read more for entertainment than for education. I’ll try:

5 Favorite Books (In No Particular Order)

• The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

  3 books totaling 2,652 pages of history, science, math, swashbuckling, alchemy, and fiction. I’m currently re-reading this series and have just started the 3rd book. It was even better the second time.

• Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

  My dad told me to read this book and I’m glad I did. This book gave me the Clancy bug and opened up his entire library to me. The Hunt for Red October deserves an honorable mention. I’ve stopped reading Clancy because his more recent works just didn’t do it for me. Jon is welcome to eat me for calling it trash. It doesn’t hold a candle to the intellectual heavyweights he musters, but Clancy’s books are often studied at military academies worldwide. That’s got to count for something.

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

  See? This is why I didn’t want to do this. I lack diversity. Anyway, Cryptonomicon is a pair of stories that happen 50 years apart but that are woven together and told at the same time. The ‘present’ side of the story is manned by descendants of characters from the ‘past’ story, but only the reader is really aware of the coincidence. One character even shows up in the aforemention Baroque cycle. This is quite odd considering they are hundreds of years apart… Enoch, you devil.

• My Side Of The Mountain by Jean Craighead George

  Whoa. A ‘young adult’ book. I don’t remember why I read this when I was a kid but I do remember how amazing the story seemed. A young boy runs away from home and lives in the woods, taking care of himself. I’m not even sure why this book sticks out so much to me. I should re-read it.

• Unknown

  Shutup. I think this is a good idea, not a cop out. I’m still looking for the fifth. I could use Snow Crash but I’ve used enough Stephenson.

Last Book You Bought

Shit. I have no idea. I think it was The Art Of Computer Programming

Name 5 Books with Meaning

I’m totally going to avoid this one. Most books serve as escape for me. Very few ever touch me in the way I hear other people explain. Perhaps I’m reading the wrong things.

Three Books I Want To Read

The Art Of Computer Programming

sigh I’ve started more than once only to have Knuth remind me how not smart I am.

Something Of Consequence

This is a meta book. Did you see Jon’s list. I’d probably do good to read anything he mentions.

Something Technical

I’ve been avoiding geek books for a few years. The last one I read was Learning Cocoa with Objective-C. Read is a strong word. Skimmed is more appropriate.

Thanks Jon. Now the world knows how poorly read I am. I tag Jaxn.

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