Before going off to work today I checked my UW email and found the following notice from one of my fellow consultants: A major water leak on C3 at the UW Tower is forcing the temporary move of Service Center (“help desk”) operations to the 4545 ERC. I didn’t think too much of it at the time. […]
Read more →Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo Journalism With a Political Twist I like Thompson’s work. He’s insightful, intelligent, and overall just a really entertaining guy to read. Fear and Loathing is really no different in that respect. He follows George McGovern throughout the presidential campaign in 1972, and is writing a series for, who else, Rolling […]
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Sean, Serene, and I went on a series of hikes this weekend to the Snohomish/Granite Falls area: Lime Kiln and Old Robe Canyon. The former roughly followed an old railway grade, whereas the latter closely traced the ruins of a railway abandoned in the early 1930s as the owners finally gave up trying to maintain it. For you […]
Read more →Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs My uncle always has found really interesting books for me to read. No genre could be excluded from the books he lends me: obscure sci-fi, dense fiction, or subversive texts are all expected and subsequently consumed by my “innocent” mind. I had received “Naked Lunch” for my birthday last year, but finally came to it […]
Read more →The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón A friend and I regularly swap books with each other. Although sometimes aiming to give them a book they’ll really enjoy, often we decide to share something that may be a little out of the normal topic or genre that they’re used to reading. It’s a great way to break out of our […]
Read more →Oddishness? Google claims there are only 15,800 instances of the word “Oddishness” on the internet. I’ll leave it up for debate if this is a) an expected number, or b) grossly exaggerated. As previously noted, I’ve started spooling up my reading quota from the earlier production of roughly one book completed per month. I’ll start jabbering […]
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