What if we all started using this again?

Author you’ve read the most books by: Shakespeare, for sizzle. Though Samuel Delany John LeCarre, and an embarrassing number of thrillers writers are also up there. I’m a completist. If I like an author, I’ll read everything they wrote ( Read more... )

I miss secrets monday.

For now,  I've abandoned this livejournal to the spambots. I do read those of you who still post - last writers of LJ, I salute you! Something tells me villagecharm is going to be the last person writing on here, but who knows, maybe never_the_lesswill prove me wrong.

Anyway, if  you care to read about the stuff I am currently interested in, like working out and learnign ( Read more... )

Continuing my long decent into total fucking loon, I got a short wave radio. I am just beginning to figure the damn thing out. Turns out the world of shortwave is more complicated than I expected. The truly foreign or weird is much more elusive than I naively thought. Stations don’t broadcast 24 hours a day and reception is generally poor. This ( Read more... )

I read exactly 40 books last year. Only four less than last year. That is surprising since I was definitely much busier this year. The numbers are a little juiced because I got sucked into the Walking Dead graphic novel series, but all in all, not a bad year. Still somehow Cosma read roughly 160 more than I did while also being a math genius and ( Read more... )

I was out to dinner a couple of weeks ago with an old time LJer and our partners and the subject of Secrets Monday and what an odd and wonderful internet thing it had become. I thought maybe it would be fun to dust it off and see if there was still any life in it. Is there ( Read more... )

Are any of you nerds doing NaNoWrimo?

Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages

Richard Rubenstein

I have for some time been interested in the interplay between classical Greek philosophy, rabbinic Judaism, and early Christian thought. Neo-platonic thought and early Christian doctrine share a lot in ( Read more... )

Think of how freeing it would be to believe that the world is ending tomorrow. You can quit your job, stop paying into your kid’s college education fund, and know that by Sunday, the mundane troubles that make up modern life will be over. As I write checks to my student loans, or send another threatening letter to another government agency screwing ( Read more... )