fighting the lack of good ideas
Last year for my birthday, my lovely wife bought me a Keurig coffee machine. I have used several at different places of work, and had been wanting one for almost a year when she got me one – she’s pretty awesome 🙂 I had had a traditional drip coffee maker for years, but only broke…
Gideon’s Spies by Gordon Thomas claims to be “the secret history of the Mossad”. From the myriad reviews on Amazon, I didn’t know whether to be expecting a massive work of historical fiction, or a insightful tour de force. After having nearly finished it, I don’t know if I have an opinion of whether it’s…
From the reading-more department, I’m going to attempt to put one review of a book out every week, with a target day of Wednesday. Might end up putting a couple out on some books because they take a longer time to read, but that’s the goal. Today started with a quickie overview of Aesop’s Fables…
To help fulfill my stated goal of reading more, I have installed the Kindle app on my laptops. So far I’ve found scores of free ebooks that I’ve either always wanted to read, or figured I’d give a chance since they’re free. The first one I read was a collection of Aesop’s fables. Some reactions:…
I finished debugging the regex for a new wordpress plugin I’m now using on my blog – it will take a “tagged” block of text (in this case inside double curly braces), and link to a target website (duckduckgo.com, amazon, etc) based on the ‘type’ of content (another tag inside the curly braces).
Coming home from Hartford this week, my wife and I got stranded in Detroit (ok, so DTW is in Romulus… but whatever). Our flight into DTW from BDL was delayed a bit, but we still had ~40 minutes to get to our flight to Lexington. However, when we landed we found out that the flight…
I find that the more time I tend to have, the less I want to read… but when I’m really busy, I’ll find all kinds of books that look interesting. With my current work arrangement, I travel frequently, and have been taking the time on the flights (if not sleeping) to read through histories, novels,…