OT – Summer Reading

[XBoxBoy]

Recently finished “Son of Hamas”

A fascinating story of a young man whose father was one of the founders of Hamas. Tells of his teens, going to prison, being recruited by Israel as a spy, and his ultimate conversion to christianity. His take on things and his perspective is fascinating.

For fiction, I’ve been working my way through James Clavell’s books. So far I’ve finished:
Shogun
Taipan
Gaijin
Nobel House
King Rat
and now working on Whirlwind. Really enjoyed all of them.

My wife recently finished “The Help” and she loved it, but I couldn’t get into that much.

Last summer I read “Water for Elephants” and really liked that.

Also recently finished “The Drunkard’s Walk, How Randomness Rules our Lives.” Found it very interesting too.

[Aecetia]

Try this one Brian:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

[Aecetia]

Try this one Brian:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

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Try this one Brian:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

[Aecetia]

Try this one Brian:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

[Aecetia]

Try this one Brian:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

[NotCranky]

Almost all my reading for the last 10 years or so has be “How to” stuff, lately by internet surfing. I surf wikipedia a lot on almost any topic… sometimes motivated by a piggington post.

Just bought “The Sacred Depths of Nature” from Barnes & Noble online. It’s for me and my kids.

I picked up “Power Tool Techniques” from Home Depot but have only looked at the pictures so far.

I recently read,
“When the Rivers Run Dry”: Water the defining crisis of the 21rst century.

I am reading a copy of “The Square Foot Garden” that my wife had when I met her a decade ago. I really hated it,and still scoff at “Square Foot” part but it has a lot of good info on growing vegetables.

Skipped through “The Panda’s Thumb” at a relatives house and have been trying to track it down from the library( I think the creationists in east county are hiding it).

Couldn’t get into Dan Brown.The book was given to me as a gift. I think it was “The Lost Symbol” My wife read it instead.

[NotCranky]

Almost all my reading for the last 10 years or so has be “How to” stuff, lately by internet surfing. I surf wikipedia a lot on almost any topic… sometimes motivated by a piggington post.

Just bought “The Sacred Depths of Nature” from Barnes & Noble online. It’s for me and my kids.

I picked up “Power Tool Techniques” from Home Depot but have only looked at the pictures so far.

I recently read,
“When the Rivers Run Dry”: Water the defining crisis of the 21rst century.

I am reading a copy of “The Square Foot Garden” that my wife had when I met her a decade ago. I really hated it,and still scoff at “Square Foot” part but it has a lot of good info on growing vegetables.

Skipped through “The Panda’s Thumb” at a relatives house and have been trying to track it down from the library( I think the creationists in east county are hiding it).

Couldn’t get into Dan Brown.The book was given to me as a gift. I think it was “The Lost Symbol” My wife read it instead.

[NotCranky]

Almost all my reading for the last 10 years or so has be “How to” stuff, lately by internet surfing. I surf wikipedia a lot on almost any topic… sometimes motivated by a piggington post.

Just bought “The Sacred Depths of Nature” from Barnes & Noble online. It’s for me and my kids.

I picked up “Power Tool Techniques” from Home Depot but have only looked at the pictures so far.

I recently read,
“When the Rivers Run Dry”: Water the defining crisis of the 21rst century.

I am reading a copy of “The Square Foot Garden” that my wife had when I met her a decade ago. I really hated it,and still scoff at “Square Foot” part but it has a lot of good info on growing vegetables.

Skipped through “The Panda’s Thumb” at a relatives house and have been trying to track it down from the library( I think the creationists in east county are hiding it).

Couldn’t get into Dan Brown.The book was given to me as a gift. I think it was “The Lost Symbol” My wife read it instead.

[NotCranky]

Almost all my reading for the last 10 years or so has be “How to” stuff, lately by internet surfing. I surf wikipedia a lot on almost any topic… sometimes motivated by a piggington post.

Just bought “The Sacred Depths of Nature” from Barnes & Noble online. It’s for me and my kids.

I picked up “Power Tool Techniques” from Home Depot but have only looked at the pictures so far.

I recently read,
“When the Rivers Run Dry”: Water the defining crisis of the 21rst century.

I am reading a copy of “The Square Foot Garden” that my wife had when I met her a decade ago. I really hated it,and still scoff at “Square Foot” part but it has a lot of good info on growing vegetables.

Skipped through “The Panda’s Thumb” at a relatives house and have been trying to track it down from the library( I think the creationists in east county are hiding it).

Couldn’t get into Dan Brown.The book was given to me as a gift. I think it was “The Lost Symbol” My wife read it instead.

[NotCranky]

Almost all my reading for the last 10 years or so has be “How to” stuff, lately by internet surfing. I surf wikipedia a lot on almost any topic… sometimes motivated by a piggington post.

Just bought “The Sacred Depths of Nature” from Barnes & Noble online. It’s for me and my kids.

I picked up “Power Tool Techniques” from Home Depot but have only looked at the pictures so far.

I recently read,
“When the Rivers Run Dry”: Water the defining crisis of the 21rst century.

I am reading a copy of “The Square Foot Garden” that my wife had when I met her a decade ago. I really hated it,and still scoff at “Square Foot” part but it has a lot of good info on growing vegetables.

Skipped through “The Panda’s Thumb” at a relatives house and have been trying to track it down from the library( I think the creationists in east county are hiding it).

Couldn’t get into Dan Brown.The book was given to me as a gift. I think it was “The Lost Symbol” My wife read it instead.

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]
I read “Linux for Dummies” and “Everything you wanted to know about an ARM processor but was too afraid to ask”
[/quote]

Funny that you mention this. Over the summer, I was fiddling with a LPC3130 (ARM9 proto board) running Linux (LTIB). I was using Fedora Core 5, later FC10, to do the build of the boot images for the LPC3130. FC5/FC10 was dual booted on my old Dell M60 (been running one or another version of Linux on the second partition since the W2k days).

LCD hinge broke on the M60.. so I have to locate a replacement part and pull it apart to repair it. Maybe its time for an upgrade on the notebook..

As for reading.. most of it was tech manuals this summer..

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]
I read “Linux for Dummies” and “Everything you wanted to know about an ARM processor but was too afraid to ask”
[/quote]

Funny that you mention this. Over the summer, I was fiddling with a LPC3130 (ARM9 proto board) running Linux (LTIB). I was using Fedora Core 5, later FC10, to do the build of the boot images for the LPC3130. FC5/FC10 was dual booted on my old Dell M60 (been running one or another version of Linux on the second partition since the W2k days).

LCD hinge broke on the M60.. so I have to locate a replacement part and pull it apart to repair it. Maybe its time for an upgrade on the notebook..

As for reading.. most of it was tech manuals this summer..

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]
I read “Linux for Dummies” and “Everything you wanted to know about an ARM processor but was too afraid to ask”
[/quote]

Funny that you mention this. Over the summer, I was fiddling with a LPC3130 (ARM9 proto board) running Linux (LTIB). I was using Fedora Core 5, later FC10, to do the build of the boot images for the LPC3130. FC5/FC10 was dual booted on my old Dell M60 (been running one or another version of Linux on the second partition since the W2k days).

LCD hinge broke on the M60.. so I have to locate a replacement part and pull it apart to repair it. Maybe its time for an upgrade on the notebook..

As for reading.. most of it was tech manuals this summer..

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]
I read “Linux for Dummies” and “Everything you wanted to know about an ARM processor but was too afraid to ask”
[/quote]

Funny that you mention this. Over the summer, I was fiddling with a LPC3130 (ARM9 proto board) running Linux (LTIB). I was using Fedora Core 5, later FC10, to do the build of the boot images for the LPC3130. FC5/FC10 was dual booted on my old Dell M60 (been running one or another version of Linux on the second partition since the W2k days).

LCD hinge broke on the M60.. so I have to locate a replacement part and pull it apart to repair it. Maybe its time for an upgrade on the notebook..

As for reading.. most of it was tech manuals this summer..

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