Tag Archives: Book Review
Cloudy Days, Musical Seduction, and Concertina Adventures – Part I
It was a number of cloudy days, kind of like today, that brought me to this instrument in front of me, almost rebuilt and ready to be played. The promise of sun on my face and cool dewy air tickles me as summertime quickly approaches. I’m in Oregon, and I am told that this year [...]
Book: A Letter to a Christian Nation – Atheist Porn?
I was going to originally title this post, “Sam Harris, The Sexiest Man Alive”, but then I thought that would probably be too honest. In any case, I suspect that I’m not Sam’s type, but now I’m really getting off track of the subject of this post. Kind of like the others but different. I [...]
High Priority – Designing a Deck
My semi-retirement is off to a good start, one of the things on my list of must do’s is getting the design of a new deck going as well as built. My house is a little bit over 40 years old, and my other half has an idea that the deck is original to the [...]
Book: Why God Won’t Go Away
I just finished reading the book “Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science & the Biology of Belief.” It was was a recommendation that was made to me by the same friend who recommended the book “My Stroke of Insight” after I mentioned that I had enjoyed that book. Jill Bolte Taylor actually references the [...]
Book: Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read
I just finished reading the book “Building a WordPress Blog” by Scott McNulty. The book is basically how to setup, administrate, and publish on a WordPress blog (specifically version 2.6). Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read ISBN: 0321591933ISBN-13: 9780321591937 Although I had a blog on WordPress.com and have been using my [...]
More Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor on TED (One of my favorite web sites)
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about a book I had read by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: Book: My Stroke of Insight – by Jill Bolte Taylor Ph.D. In the book Dr. Taylor describes her experience having a stroke and the long journey back. Stroke of Insight was a book recommended to me [...]
The Oregon Experiment – More Evidence of the Brand of Geek I Am
I just finished reading a really cool book called “The Oregon Experiment.” It is the third volume in a series of architecture books which have become not only a reference for architects, but a trigger for a whole way of thinking around software architecture and development called design patterns. I am enjoying these books for [...]
