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A Programing Note: 100,000 hits
Over the new year, this website reached 100,000 hits. Honestly, when I started it, I never expected that many people would check it out. By far, the vast majority of visitors to the site are interested in the Boston Qualifier Questionnaire, a project I started after asking a few people in an internet forum about…
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2015: My Year In Books
I set two reading goals for 2015 – to read fifty two books for the year and to have fifty percent of those books be by women. Unlike most of the other goals I set this year, I actually accomplished both of these.I’m pretty happy with that. Now that I’m a dad who almost never…
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365: A Programming Note
If you are one of the few people who follows this blog (as opposed to arriving here through googling or a social media link) you may have noticed a flurry of activity. That’s because I’ve been closing in on one of my goals for the year – to post 365 times in 2015. Well, through…
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Nabokovs Notecards
Research materials for Lolita 138 notecards that make up the as of yet unpublished The Original of Laura . V.N. would write them by hand, often in bed, or at a stand up desk. He would dictate them to his wife, Vera. After dinner, they often played games. Chess and Scrabble were favorites. VN was…
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Bridges Project: Borden Avenue Bridge
For a small body of water, the Newtown Creek and its inlet, the Dutch Kill, sure have a lot of bridges over it. Its not surprising of course, these have been working waterways for scores of years and are still lined with warehouses – crossing them was a matter of economic expediency, and since they’re…
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Review: Brown’s Angels and Demons
Angels & Demons – Movie Tie-In Dan Brown In my attempt to understand America, I read Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons 1. It is terribly written. There, I said it. Now to be fair, I don’t know if I could have written it. For many reasons. I couldn’t sustain the level of cliff hanger chapters,…
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Review: Beard and Henderson’s Classics
Classics: A Very Short Introduction Mary Beard and John Henderson A short, but clever little book co-written by one of my favorite writers, Mary Beard. This is not really an overview of the substance of “Classics” (i.e. the works of the ancient world). Rather, it is an overview of the way we think about the…
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Review: Malcolm’s In the Freud Archives
In the Freud Archives (New York Review Books Classics) Janet Malcolm An early Janet Malcolm book on the infighting among a group of scholars associated with the Freud Archives. This is a classic example of how a great journalist can turn a subject matter I care nothing about into a gripping read by finding the…
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Review: Bittman’s Vegan Before Six
VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good Mark Bittman I’ve written separately about my own efforts to follow the “Vegan Before Six” diet, so I’ll limit this to a review of the book. While you don’t need to read this to follow the VB6 guidelines,…
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“A whole bunch of nothing” – Totals for the week ending 12.13.2015
Run Miles for the week: 0 Run Miles for the year: 1350 Projected total run miles for the year: 1411 Run Streak: 0 Run Streak Mileage: n/a Days Until I Beat My Old Streak n/a Bike Miles for the Week: 0 Bike Miles for the Year: 557.9 Projected total bike miles for the year:…
Milo and the Calf 