Posts tagged "random"
Word salad September 23, 2010
De re profanae May 22, 2011
The Tappan Zee Bridge and software development August 19, 2011
8,827,520 pixels! December 8, 2011
Quote o' the week: a journal that meets in a hotel January 25, 2012
The Anti-Meeting Theory of Time February 13, 2012
Lessons from Scrum 2012.2 April 26, 2012
This is not me May 2, 2012
Lessons from scrum 2012.3 May 12, 2012
Automotive maintenance July 28, 2013
Quote o' the day: If thats in my future I may be in trouble April 21, 2014
More wisdom from mcguire August 23, 2014
Haskell's biggest flaw December 17, 2014
Defending Darwin? March 30, 2015
One stupid shell scripting trick everyone should know April 11, 2015
2015 Atlanta Pen Show April 22, 2015
A New Thing September 28, 2015
The wisdom o' mcguire November 6, 2015
An ode to black humor December 7, 2015
A short guide to academic titles February 25, 2016
2016 Triangle Pen Show September 2, 2016
I managed to miss the Atlanta Pen Show this year, but fortunately, I was in North Carolina for the Triangle Pen Show in Cary, June 2-5. It was somewhat smaller and more intimate, but no less fun. Only one room of tables (plus a couple of hallways), but the contents of those tables was no less mind-blowing.
Read more…Tutu: an Egyptian god who is more metal than you May 27, 2018
The Darker Side May 28, 2018
“The Darker Side of the ‘Original Affluent Society’”, by David Kaplan…
Read more…The benefits of rain June 26, 2018
How to Live, or a life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer July 25, 2018
Male-pattern baldness and a big mustache.
Ok, so a biography of Michel de Montaigne, a man who invented the essay and examined his own thoughts and reactions, seems a bit like duct-taping a ten-foot pole to another ten-foot pole, but How to Live, or a life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer, by Sarah Bakewell, is not bad. It has its moments, anyway.
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