Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body Jennifer Ackerman takes you through a day starting with a detailed description of waking in the morning and finishing with just as detailed a description of going to sleep in the evening. Throughout she mixes obsrevations, quips, and the reports of scientific [...]
Tagged Books, jennifer ackerman, reviewA witty and informative story of a woman who works her way up to the wait staff of a four-star NY restaurant, Per Se. This very readable book goes through the establishment of a new restaurant, and it’s striving for a great review from the NY Times food critic. The story also mirrors the author’s [...]
Tagged Books, reviewMichael Pollan at Google In Videos: Michael Pollan Lectures at Google | Serious Eats : Required Eating Michael Pollan gave a lecture last week at Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his book, In Defense of Food, and share simple advice about how to eat healthily and responsibly, but also for pleasure and community. [...]
Philip K. Dick has left us with several good reads. I had read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and The Man in the High Castle last year. The former deals with the future, empathy, and how humans handle the situation of very human-like androids and the destruction of wildness. The other puts us in [...]
When you find a dragon in your house, do you kill it or set it free? That’s the question John Moody is faced with in Skylight Confessions: A Novel by Alice Hoffman. The story is about a family that’s trapped in their feelings and their surroundings. Hoffman tells the story using fantasy, allegory, and stark [...]
I recently read Seeking Whom He May Devour: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Investigates (Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries) a thoroughly enjoyable book. The setting for much of the story is a section of France a little north of Nice. WE had the pleasure of spending some days in and near Nice a few years ago, and also [...]
Rudy Rucker writes and spins another great tale of mathematics, computing, and science fiction. He does a great job of capturing the blend of the love for the intellectual, carnal, romantic, and fantastic lives that we experience through our own lives. He takes it further than most of us go in terms of our own [...]
I am really liking AJAX and PHP, by Cristian Daire, Filip Chereches-Tosa, Bogdan Brinzarea, and Mihai Bucica. I’ve only read the first chapter and browsed the book, and it seems very clear and well-written. I’ll be the instructor in a course titled Building Web Applications With AJAX this coming semester. I’ll be recommending this book [...]
Hugh Hewitt a successful commentator and blogger put this book together in 2004-2005 to explain the relation of blogs to main steam media (MSM) and to advise readers about the need to create and manage blogs. The book is a quick read and informative regardless of whether the reader is familiar with the effect and [...]
Claudia wins a Pulitzer!!
Our good friend Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book “Late Wife: Poem.” A quote from her in an article in the Washington Post accurately described the situation here among her friends: “We’re freaking out here,” said poetry winner Emerson, who teaches at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, [...]