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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Two weeks ago I saw I Am Legend, the movie. Last week I read I Am Legend, the novella.
After reading the book, I was surprised my the dissimilarities between the stories. The movie is so different from the book that it may as well have had a different name. There are some common elements, but […]
Kindle
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Today I went to Amazon.com to do a little holiday shopping and the home page was a note about a new gadget called Kindle.
This thing looks so cool!
You can purchase books right from the device without WiFi, read blogs, and lookup words you don’t know. The display is about as paper-like as you can […]
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Last year I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. This book is a narration of a father’s motorcycle trip across the American northwest with his son. There are many philosophical chautauquas sprinkled throughout the milestones of the trip. More so than it tells a story, the book lays the […]
Image and Photo Editng Software for Free
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Recently I’ve had the need to do some image and photo editing, but Microsoft Paint isn’t really up to the job and I don’t want to spend money on something I don’t plan on being good at.
I started of searching Google and found The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). The GIMP is a lot like […]
Seinfeld and Philosophy
Monday, August 27th, 2007In March 2006, I finished reading Seinfeld and Philosophy. This book is terrible. Don’t read it. There are a few interesting points and a few interesting insights, but none of the essays in this book add up to anything interesting. A few essays (most notably, the one on “The Costanza Maneuver”) get so caught up […]
The Simpsons
Friday, July 27th, 2007Oh, how I love The Simpsons. I’m going to see the movie tonight, despite that I feel destined for disappointment. Will it be all a Simpsons movie could be? Probably not.
But any way…
What I really like about The Simpsons is it’s irreverence towards… everything. One of my favorite moments is this song, sung my Mr. […]
A Personal Productivity Scaffold
Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Recently I began reading the Steve Pavlina blog after a friend recommended it.
Today I came across an article on how to create a personal productivity scaffold. What a great idea! After reading the article, I have implemented one myself as a way of keeping up with my accounting books which are always lagging behind. […]
What’s missing from the local news
Sunday, July 1st, 2007When someone you know is involved in a news-worthy tragedy, you quickly find that the vast majority of local news sites are inadequate. For example: When a forest fire nearly burned down my mom’s house in South Carolina, all I could find was a quick blurb about it that didn’t even mention the fact that […]
The Art of War
Monday, February 12th, 2007I was browsing around Project Gutenberg today and came across a 1910 translation of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles. It turned out to be the same translation I was first exposed to.
I remember my stepsister buying a very old copy for herself at a used book store in […]
Under the Banner of Heaven
Monday, February 5th, 2007I finished Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer about two weeks ago. This was a disturbing book that covers a history of Mormon fundamentalism as a background to the […]
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