Personal Technology Coaching
It’s not a book, really, it’s a short story first published in the New Yorker. I haven’t read it yet, though I’ve saved it as a PDF. I had come across some buzz about the movie here and there, and Jason Kottke linked to the story at the New Yorker. It’s directed by Ang Lee, ... Read more
Project Gutenberg Titles by P. G. Wodehouse Project Gutenberg Titles by P. G. Wodehouse It seems many of them have moved into the public domain. Have you read Wodehouse? Very funny.
What book can’t you put down? | Ask MetaFilter “I’m looking for a really good story—I feel like I’m drowning in books but there’s nothing I really want to read. I’m tired of all these ‘literary’ novels where nothing really happens, or the big best-sellers that are all action and no substance. I don’t really … Read more
Quick Sunday Morning note: [Anne Lamott’s Plan B – Further Thoughts on Faith(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573222992/104-6157023-0711911?v=glance) is funny and moving. We have it from the library, and it’s so good I want to go buy a copy. (I’ll wait for trade paper, though.)
William Gibson returns to blogging. Why? Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln. And because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, “At times, to be silent is to lie.” What he said.
I picked every category for this post, because I don’t have one called “Overloladed.” I must winnow my to do lists to one list, remove some bookmarks that are more time-wasters than valuable (though Fafblog is too good to lose, for one), I need to backup, weed, and resinstall on my laptop, which has become … Read more
BBC – Radio 4 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The final three books in the Hitchhiker ‘trilogy’ are being adapted for Radio 4 in two new series starting in September 2004 and May 2005. Crooked Timber linked to it, so they get credit. I will be recording them all if my schedule allows, ... Read more
beliefnet: Tony Hendra talks about his bestselling book, ‘Father Joe,’ and the man behind it I really like this book; Father Joe is an ideal of the listening loving father figure, not ideological or even apparently capable of the little selfishnesses of normal humanity. I’m glad E gave me a copy; I’ll be revisiting Father … Read more