Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris My rating: 4 of 5 stars After thoroughly enjoying the HBO series True Blood for two seasons I decieded to give the Sookie Stackhouse books a try. (This worked well for me in reading Kathy Reich’s Temperance Brennan books after watching Bones.) The first season of the show is [...]
Category Archives: Books
206 Bones
10/4/2009 – 9:30 am
I’ve been neglecting the blog of late. I haven’t really had much to say that the 140 characters of Twitter hasn’t taken care of. However, since I took the time to write a book review on GoodReads, I thought I’d share it here too. 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs My rating: 4 of 5 stars [...]
LOAD “:*”,8,1 (yes, I know I’ve used this title before…)
7/29/2009 – 8:27 am
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore by Brian Bagnall My rating: 4 of 5 stars Some of the reviews I read of this book lead me to believe it would be more focused on the business side than the technology side. I was presently surprised that I felt it was 70% [...]
Recent readings
1/19/2009 – 11:31 am
13 Things That Don’t Make Sense by Michael Brooks My review rating: 4 of 5 starsGreat read, worth reading for anyone who likes to get their science geek. Gets as deep as it needs to into what it covers, but not deeper. Light fun science reading Princeps’ Fury: Book Five of the Codex Alera by [...]
Recent readings…
9/20/2008 – 2:47 pm
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku My review rating: 4 of 5 starsI became interested in the book after hearing an interview with the author on Slice of SciFi. Its an easy read and goes into just enough depth on [...]
Whoa
2/8/2007 – 6:40 pm
According to That Book: …of Perfectly Useless Information: If you farted continously for 6 years and 9 months, enough wind would be produced to equal the energy of an atomic bomb. I wanted to post this before the super bowl where we had planned to eat wings and drink beer and later produce wind energy. [...]
The Dark Tower returns!
10/29/2005 – 4:02 pm
This time in comic form! STEPHEN KING BREAKS NEW GROUND AT MARVEL WITH ORIGINAL COMIC SERIES BASED ON HIS EPIC THE DARK TOWER It looks like they’ll be following the young Roland when he started out his journey. Hopefully we’ll see Cuthbert and Alain. Also, this marks the first time Stephen King has done original [...]
Black Sabbath is making our kids into Satan worshipers!
9/20/2005 – 10:49 am
The Economist had an article on the social impact of video games titled Chasing the Dream. Its been posted elsewhere on the net before me, but I have to quote this one paragraph because its so good. Another analogy can be made between games and music—specifically, with the emergence of rock and roll in the [...]
Notes from the scarlet fields of Can’-Ka No Rey
10/1/2004 – 11:37 pm
In a previous post I mentioned that the end was near for the Dark Tower series from Stephen King. It came out on 9/21 and I finished reading it this past Tuesday morning 9/28. A little bit slower then I thought, but its a big book coming in at 845 pages. It probably should have [...]
The end is near….
9/10/2004 – 3:26 pm
The end is near! On Sept. 21st to be exact. I think I’ll start at the beginning this weekend. The Dark Tower web site and print advirtising used “The end is near, start at the beginning” last year when they re-released the earlier books. Its been stuck in my head since then. Now its almost [...]
