On a recent Delta flight (I believe we were on a B737-800), the seat-back entertainment system needed to be rebooted, so everybody on the plane got to watch the startup messages scroll by. It was a Linux system booting with Redboot, running on a single-processor system (to judge from the single Tux graphic on boot). […]
My librarian sent me this review of math-related literary works some time ago. I’m putting it here so I don’t have to keep it in my inbox.
Do you like Penn & Teller? Do you like the book World War Z? Perhaps you will enjoy this short film.
The Chicago Tribune has an interview with Tim Gunn about the just-completed Project Runway season, in which Tim dishes way more than I would have expected.
The people at my house really enjoy the San Marcos red and green salsas; I don’t know whether our store carries the chipotle in adobo that is shown in this recipe.
Through a set of coïncidences, I read three Hispaniola-connected works in rapid succession (the middle work overlapped, I think, both of the others). I chose Oscar Wao from a list of starred Publishers Weekly reviews. While I was reading it, the folks at my house watched Muppet Treasure Island, which caused me to wonder yet […]
The Lyre of Orpheus, Davies. Yes. Davies is extremely good, and I suspect it’s mostly because of the large amount of attention I have to pay that I haven’t read much more. I read the Deptford Trilogy some time ago (before I started reviewing everything I read), and also enjoyed it despite Davies’s habit of […]
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, LeGuin. Yes. There’s not a whole lot more to say about LeGuin than “yes.” This collection includes some relatively early works, and it shows to the extent that there is less subtlety than in her later works. We’re not talking Tepper-blatant, natch, but she was clearly refining her craft. […]