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Finished reading Geopolitics: Revisioning World Politics, by John Agnew.  Eh, not exciting.  Don't read it.

Now am reading All the President's Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.  Particularly excited about that.

Finished So Long and Thanks for All the Fish today.  Yay!  With every book following The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams' books get increasingly silly.  Still entertaining, of course, but a bit pointless.

I have (finally) finished The Dead Sea Scrolls.  How long have I been reading it, you ask?  Since December.  It’s true, it took me almost six months to read that book.  But if YOU had read it, I rather suspect you would’ve had the same problem.  In a bout of nerdiness, while at the Miami Book Fair, I saw this book, a new translation of the Dead ( Read more... )

So...  I almost gave myself a concussion today.  How, you ask?  I opened the bathroom door at work right into my face, hard.  I feel like there should be a ginormous bruise, but there isn't, just a swollen bump on my eyebrow.  Ugh ( Read more... )

Our lease at the current apartment runs out at the end of July, so Chris and I have been looking for a new place closer to work.  It is much easier to find this place as we both work at the same company, so we don't have to try to find one equidistant from two jobs.  We had initially thought we might just move home at the end of August as we were ( Read more... )

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So...  I realize that I have no access to the intelligence or evidence relating to the attempted bombing in Times Square, and that even if I did, I am not an expert on terrorism.  However, I confess to feeling skeptical that the Taliban or Al Qaeda had anything to do with the bombing attempt.  Mostly because ( Read more... )

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Incidentally, the company I work for makes gas detection devices that are used by miners, as well as firefighters, oil drillers, etc.  Of course, just because we supply safety equipment and training does not mean that we can compell customers to use the products correctly.

I finally finished reading Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943, by Antony Beevor.  Finally.  It was both good and bad.  A great thing about this book is the author's use of anecdotes and personal information to help illustrate the story.  However, I think the book would have been better without the author's incessant moralizing.  I rather ( Read more... )

So I spent a good part of work yesterday in the hospital (spoiler alert: am totally fine.  As I repeatedly told everyone.).  I was looking for a box with a specific serial number on it.  As, inevitably, the box I was looking for was in a very large, rather heavy cardboard box with 59 of its best friends and relatives, which was, inevitably, stacked ( Read more... )

This made me laugh really hard:

"I know you. You're sitting there, thinking about what to get me for my birthday.
Ruminating on how different my taste is from yours.
On my puzzling dislike of rhinestones and sequins
On my unresponsiveness to your love of soviet kitsch, the extent of which Regina Spektor herself can only dream she understands.
You're ( Read more... )