Jun 22 2008
Books
2008
- What Happened - Scott McClellan
- Tell all about the Bush White House. McClellan tries to defend himself before history judges him poorly.
- Proust was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer
- Poorly written pop science book which tries to explain how artists know more than researchers
- Post-Capitalist Society - Peter Drucker
- Discussion of knowledge workers in industry
- Spook Country - William Gibson
- Standard multithreaded Gibson novel set in the present day
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco
- Reminds me of The Island of the Day Before. However, I still like Foucault’s Pendulum the best.
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
- If you are a liberal, reinforces your beliefs in the right wing conservative media and movement.
- The Last Man on the Moon - Eugene Cernan
- Interesting and amusing anecdotes about the man on the moon program, although it is filled with back stabbing and bitterness.
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert O’Brien
- My daughter reminded me about the super intelligent rats
- My daughter reminded me about the super intelligent rats
- Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink - Ed. David Remnick
- Wide ranging stores about food…some good, some bad, just like The New Yorker
- A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine - Jay Mcinerney
- Light reading about wine culture
2007
- Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) - Neal Stephenson
- Neal Stephenson’s opus, but he needed an editor
- Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
- Interesting topic, but poorly told
- On Bullshit
- With a title like this, how can’t you like it?
- ShaderX5: Advanced Rendering Techniques
- Advanced rendering tricks if you do real time graphics
- The Zen of Fish
- Goes for the story instead of the fish
- How To Open Locks With Improvised Tools
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- The series finally ends
- One Party Country
- Written one year too early
- Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy
- Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation
- Body of Secrets
- Expose on the NSA
- Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire
- The Build Master: Microsoft’s Software Configuration Management Best Practices
- The Best and Brightest
- Imperfect C++: Practical Solutions for Real-Life Programming
- Warps your mind with real world C++ techniques
- Japanese Etiquette & Ethics In Business
- The Rice-Paper Ceiling: Breaking through Japanese Corporate Culture
- Ultramarathon Man
- Word Freak
- Entertaining window into the world of professional Scrabble players