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11/08
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Shooting Digital: Pro Tips for Taking Great Pictures with Your Digital Camera (Paperback) by Mikkel Aaland bookshelves: currently-reading, own, photography |
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recommended for: ambitious but ultimately amateur photographers
read in November, 2007 
Rob said:
"I found this to be a pretty well-balanced book that is targeted at amateur photographers that are trying to take their photos to the next level. The book is technique driven rather than focused on the hardware. Because the chapters are organized to...more
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01/22
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback) by Douglas R. Hofstadter bookshelves: currently-reading, own |
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recommended for: deepest of deep geeks
Rob said:
"ON HOLD?
I've been "currently reading" since ... December 2005? A while now, in any case... Deep geekery. Let's build logic from its component parts. And then after by-hand fabricating that nomenclature, we'll use i...more " progress: "brushed the dust off to make sure my bookmark was still there" — 10/05/2008 11:21AM |
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (Paperback) by Alan Sokal bookshelves: to-read |
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New comment on Fogus's progress update: "On page 455 of Last Argument Of Kings (The First Law, #.... Mad dash to finish before Wednesday."
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Rob
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Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (Paperback) by Angela Carter bookshelves: 2009, anthology |
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Rob is on page 275 of 340 of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories
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Rob
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"Her heavy peasant face was fringed by a bang of red hair like a woollen table-spread, a colour at once strange and attractive, an obstinate colour, a colour that seemed to make Lena feel something alien and bad-tempered had settled over her forehead..." — Djuna Barnes | |||
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Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming (Paperback) by Gardner R. Dozois bookshelves: 2009, anthology, first-contact, science-fiction |
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Federations (Paperback) by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads author) bookshelves: to-read |
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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback) by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads author) bookshelves: to-read |
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Rob
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By Blood We Live (Paperback) by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads author) bookshelves: to-read |
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Rob
read and liked
Manny's
review of La Boîte noire:
"It occurred to me that Tonino Benacquista is a bit like a French version of Iain Banks. Great storyteller, brilliant at cooking up tastefully intriguing mixtures of sex and violence with a psychological twist. Often the story is told in an odd order,...more " | |||
"...but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt."
— José Saramago
— José Saramago
"Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards."
— David Mitchell (Ghostwritten)
— David Mitchell (Ghostwritten)
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"...I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us."
— William Gibson (Idoru)
— William Gibson (Idoru)
"If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote."
— David Foster Wallace (Up, Simbal!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate)
— David Foster Wallace (Up, Simbal!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate)
"Had I done the right thing by not telling her? Maybe not. Who on earth wanted the right thing anyway? Yet what meaning could there be if nothing was right? If nothing was fair? Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase."
— Haruki Murakami (Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World)
— Haruki Murakami (Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World)
Brief Lives of Hideous Men (Biographies & Memoirs)
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updated 09/14/2008 12:31PM
description:
My short obit/tribute to David Foster Wallace.
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