Monthly Archives: April 2009

I did like Ender’s Game when I first read it, and I will not deny that it’s been a huge influence on sci-fi in general. But I will not be reading any more Orson Scott Card. I picked up Seventh … Continue reading →

I used to sail boats quite a bit. Small boats, crewed by one or two people. I got this book during a long winter, something to read to pass the time until the ice melted and it was warm enough … Continue reading →

This was a bit like book archaeology. I opened up the Spelljammer box set and found the Lorebook of Voidspace, along with all the other normal contents of the box set. I also found a bunch of character sheets and … Continue reading →

Another random book that I have no idea where it came from.  This one is riddled with highlighting, was probably used for some class or other.  I kind of want to flip through it some more and guess as to … Continue reading →

I do love dictionarys. Especially big ones that have lots of etymology stuff in them. The OED would be ideal, but I don’t know where I’d put it. This one is pretty awesome though. It has lots of good pictures, … Continue reading →

The last week has been pretty busy so I missed a couple of days. Hey I had to do Taxes and all kinds of other fun stuff. So to make up for it I’m posting three books at once!  One … Continue reading →

This is another one of those great 1960’s (I’m guessing as to the decade but it seems right) books with the cool illustrations and design.  I’m sure a lot of the science in these is out of date by now, … Continue reading →

About a year and a half ago, maybe even two years ago at this point, I joined SAGE, the Systems Administration guild part of the Usenix organization.  Usenix hosts Unix oriented conferences and other cool computer related events. Part of … Continue reading →

This one feels like a garage sale book. Not sure where it came from, and I haven’t read it yet but hey. The brain is pretty cool though, right?