Finished. What a delight! This one is a lot less prescriptive than The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and what one learns, one learns by osmosis. The book skips around a lot of different ideas and it reaches deep into … Continue reading →

Said Judas to Mary, “O what will you do with your ointment so rich and so rare?” Continue reading →

I have tried reading the bible about a dozen times but I always start with Matthew or Genesis but my eyes go all blurry at the all the begats in Matthew Ch1 and the bewildering number of people that appear … Continue reading →

I finally finished the third in the trilogy and what an odd trilogy it was. The Golden Compass started out as a straightforward fantasy novel for children borrowing heavily from Christian mythology with some witches and armoured bears for local … Continue reading →

Went to Powell’s today. After 10 years of appreciating the fact that Barnes and Noble had two whole shelves full of books about science, it was a shock to find a whole store – about the size of my previously … Continue reading →

S’funny how your perspective changes with a new piece of information. While I was briefly under the impression that Bill Bryson’s The Lost Continent was written by the cuddly old curmudgeon pictured on the back cover I rated it LOL … Continue reading →

The Utopian dream of the looters ends in dystopia and apocalypse. Continue reading →

If you are one of the many people who wondered about the Maltese Falcon, you might enjoy this brief history. In 1523, after a continual onslaught by the Ottoman forces, the Order was ejected from Rhodes and in 1530, under … Continue reading →

I only had 15 minutes when I nipped into B&N during Jazz’s piano lesson and I wanted to pick up a copy of V for Vendetta for Dylan. Since he had dressed as him for Halloween, I thought it only … Continue reading →