Lately I've been spending a most of my time reading. Here's some of what I've read in no particular order: Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott - A math nerd classic, it's a short novel relating the travels of a square through various spatial dimensions. It reads like a mini version of Gulliver's Travels. It...
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard P. Feynman I ran across that quote today and it seems so true.Their is no delusion like self delusion. Nothing keeps me from positive change more than denying I have a problem which needs...
Lately I've been spending a most of my time reading. Here's some of what I've read in no particular order: Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott - A math nerd classic, it's a short novel relating the travels of a square through various spatial dimensions. It reads like a mini version of Gulliver's Travels. It...
David Bodanis is one of my favorite writers in non-fiction. I recently finished Walter Isaacaon's Einstein and I really enjoyed it, which reminded me E=mc2. Bodanis has a tongue-in-cheek humor I enjoy, akin to writers such as Bill Bryson. Fiction is for when I'm in another place mentally. I read a...
OK folks. Same deal: Bold for books I've read. Underlined for books I've read and loved. Italics for books I mean to read. Crossed through for books I have no intention of ever reading. Here goes: THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by Henry Adams THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by William James UP...
On our recent trip to Boston, I noticed Janice was reading The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs (who tried “to become the smartest person in the world” by reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB) A to Z; he’ll not make it even if he did it.) Trying not to have one's “kids” know more than one does, I pick...
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