I mostly slummed it with "dragon books" after the long literary slog that was 2008. These are the books of 2009 in the the order I read them:( Read more... )

There's been a virtual book club going this summer appropriately named Infinite Summer as it focuses on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. I picked up a copy back in July, but I'm just now getting started on it. The book is almost 1000 pages long, plus 100 pages of footnotes, some of which have footnotes themselves. There are paragraphs that are ( Read more... )

I've been house shopping for a while now, and today got an offer accepted. I'd put in several offers on a different house, but after going back and forth for two weeks we couldn't come to an agreement on price. The deal for the house I'll be buying came together much quicker. I toured it on Thursday, made an offer on Friday, had it countered ( Read more... )

I started reading War and Peace in February, and 10 months and 1200+ pages later I've finished. It's a very strange book. It's this huge, sweeping, epic story, in which the larger events are almost trivialized next to the minutia of the character's lives. At the same time, there's no main character, and no central thrust to the character's stories ( Read more... )

1s check in to Reeser but they don't check out. Go Beavs!

New ads from each campaign in response to the financial sector meltdown.( Read more... )

Went camping this weekend with my Dad and two of my uncles in Mad River, CA. They got there on Thursday, but I had to work, so I didn't leave until Friday around 6:00pm. It's about an 8 hour drive, so by the time I got down there it was almost 3:00am. Unfortunately when I was about 20 miles from the road the campground is on I hit a road block ( Read more... )

I started reading the copy of War and Peace that I bought a while back. It's slow going, I'm only 100 pages in. Events of note thus far ( Read more... )

I picked up a copy of the new translation of War and Peace that has been getting attention lately. Just to look at it is...intimidating. However, aside from it's reputation as one of the greatest novels ever written, it'll be worth the effort for bragging rights alone. We'll see if I can get through it in 2008.

Wow, what a great game. First win in Autzen since 1993, and in 2nd Overtime. Go Beavs!

In other news, GoDaddy commercials during the game were just bizarre.