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Before posting my TBR list for 2012, I want to revisit my 2011 followup post. Due to a deafening roar of demand, I have written a bit about each book and what I thought of it. Spoiler alert: I liked them all! Harry Turtledove — How Few Remain The first novel in Turtledove’s Southern Victory [...]

This Sidwalk Art Will Blow Your Mind I decided to remote into my home computer, my eight-year-old son was on so I figured I would mess with him. Is SpaceX Changing the Rocket Equation? 569 days after he was arrested, detained, and held in isolation, Bradley Manning gets a date in court for a pre-trial [...]

The Web abounds with free services for us users. I host all my email at GMail. I use most of Google’s other services (Reader, Docs, G+). I have Facebook. I love Springpad. I use Goodreads. In fact, I don’t believe I currently use any pay-for services at all. “A great misconception: the idea that cash [...]

Yay because it led to the giant Borders trip Lauren and I took today. My acquisitions: Two Iain M. Banks Culture novels: Surface Detail and Matter Singularity Sky and Glasshouse by Charles Stross First four books of The Change by S. M. Stirling: Dies the Fire, The Protector’s War, A Meeting at Corvallis, and The [...]

Last night was the CNN New Hampshire GOP debate. In attendance were Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, and Herman Cain. Here are my first impressions, in no particular order: I don’t think I have ever seen more blatant pandering than I saw from Bachmann and Pawlenty. Every single [...]

I originally wrote this a few months ago when I changed jobs, but it still applies – I haven’t really adjusted well in this sense. I have been maimed. I recently moved to a new employer, and the move has handicapped me. My new employer requires cell phones to be left in one’s car, in [...]

In 2010, I read forty-four books (maybe forty-five, if I finish the last one in the next four days…), more or less at random. This year, I’m following Lauren‘s and Christy‘s leads in choosing some of my books beforehand. Therefore, here are the twelve books (and two alternates) that I intend to read in 2011. [...]

Caught these questions over on Life … With Books and decided to use them for my own reading-year-in-review as well. Check my 2010 Reading page for the books that were in “contention” here. I’m still reading three books right now (Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part One; The Wellstone by Wil McCarthy; and Saint Thomas Aquinas by [...]

Time for my next piece of news! Yesterday I told you about Lauren‘s new project, Send Me An Instant Photo. Today, it’s my turn. I have started a new blog: ink. ink. is going to be my home away from home for anything creative. imnotpete will be returning to mostly-technical posts relating to my work [...]

So Lauren has started an awesome new project. Send Me An Instant Photo is her effort to collect as many instant photos as she can. She has a P.O. box all set up and ready, and she’ll be posting all the photos she gets in her gallery.