So what’d I do this week? Got sick with Viral Gastroentrisis again Finished The Glass Bead Game Hit up Seattle’s Less Wrong Meetup group Finished Oryx and Crake Finished a project of mine. A small project, involving data visualization Thoughts on book reading: I don’t quite get modern literature. Or any “fine” literature, for that […]

This past week, a couple of us techheads were shooting the breeze (yes, during midterms, and yes, the night before the algorithms midterm of death) and the turns of the conversation touched briefly on bringing programming to the masses, lingering for a few moments on things like hypercard and The Diamond Age. The Diamond Age […]

So a friend of mine recently-ish filled out one of those Q/A lists about books on tumblr, and it got me thinking about books I haven’t read, and it got me thinking. Specifically, one of the books mentioned happened to touch on an anomaly in my reading habits, one of the few books that I’ve […]