Archive: Books category
Are we developing ADD as a society? I came across two interesting articles on similar themes, one from the Baltimore Sun titled Plugged in, zoned out, and the other from the Atlantic Monthly titled Is Google Making Us Stupid?. From the first:
When River Hill High School ...
J.K. Rowling gave a rather good commencement address at Harvard this past Thursday, entitled "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination." (Thanks to Joni for the heads-up.)
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the ...
I've finally started work in earnest on Unbindery. After several false starts on the look, I came up with this, which I like:
I also wrote the login system this afternoon. Development is going a little slower than I'd hoped, but it's still not bad. ...
A couple weeks ago I bought a beautiful new softcover ruled Moleskine, and wow, I love them. With this one I've started writing down quotes and passages -- making it a commonplace book -- and I've got a couple I recently came across and really like. ...
It's almost scary how much the media influences our perspective on life. The other day, for example, I was thinking about love -- how it starts, grows, and then blossoms into a relationship -- and I realized that my outlook on it is to a large degree based on ...
Cleaning checks are tomorrow morning, and I find myself doing everything possible to procrastinate it. Heck, if I'd started a few hours ago like I planned, I could be done in another hour. But no, instead I'm trying to tell myself that I can totally just go to ...
You know, I have a feeling there'll be a lot of Karamazovian posts over the next few weeks. :) Here's one from 1.1.4, the second page of the chapter, which is describing Alyosha:
...he [Alyosha] certainly loved people: throughout his life he seemed to believe in people and trust them, ...
When people used to ask me what my favorite book was, I wasn't quite sure what to say, so I responded with the Chronicles of Narnia. It wasn't until a few days ago when in a conversation with a friend I realized that the Narnia books really aren't my ...
So, I signed up on Goodreads yesterday. It's...addicting. The site itself is so-so -- the design feels a little too padded for my tastes, and it could use some more social networking features ("Your friends who read this book and gave it five stars also read these ...
[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.]
I went to a Coptic bookbinding workshop yesterday (a pre-conference part of the A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference, which was today) and made my first book binding:
(You can see more photos on Flickr, by the way.)
So, it's ...
