August 2, 20232 yr Wool - Hugh Howey. Fun book. They adapted the first half of this one in to the TV show "Silo". I do enjoy the story archetypes where they drop you in a world with lots of strange stuff where things start happening and you have to keep reading to figure out what the heck is going on.
August 2, 20232 yr Financial Modeling Using Quantum Computing, by Anshul Saxena, Javier Mancilla, Iraitz Montalban, and Christophe Pere Debugging Embedded and Real-Time Systems, by Arnold S. Berger Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing, by Frank Gaitan Quantitative Finance for Physicists, by Anatoly B. Schmidt Learning Modern C++ for Finance by Daniel Hanson ...and other books on: Quantum Computing, Quantitative Finance, Embedded and Real-Time software development, Modern C++, and other technically challenging topics. I really need to settle down, but brain go brrrr...someone should not have given me an O'Reilly account. Oh, wait, I did. 🙃
September 26, 20232 yr A little push back to the doom scrolling. ‘Are You OK?’ San Francisco Residents Say They Most Certainly Are. San Francisco’s national reputation has plunged since the pandemic began, and many residents say they are frustrated by how their beloved city is being viewed.
October 14, 20232 yr Going Infinite - Michael Lewis I didn’t so much read this book as devour it in two nights. Lewis has his critics, but he is just such a wonderful storyteller. I’m always amazed by his ability to explain highly complex topics to the “interested layman” aka me. Lewis is just so read-able. As a securities lawyer I’ve been following the story of SBF, FTX, and the Crypto Winter with some interest these last two years, so I am very much the target audience for this book. I loved it. Sam is a great character. Yes, the ending is compromised as he rushed to get it out before the trail, but I find it hard to blame the man. You strike while the iron is hot.
October 26, 20232 yr Volume 1 of the Definitive Collection contains issues #1-7, so I'm still optimistic. I picked it up a few months ago and I forgot I hadn't read it yet. Edited October 26, 20232 yr by HiWire
November 10, 20232 yr Led Zeppelin IV’ Cover Photo Mystery Man Finally Identified 52 Years After Album’s Release
November 24, 20232 yr How to make bad biscuits: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-most-of-america-is-terrible-at-making-biscuits?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
January 20, 20242 yr A pretty fun read… “Every now and then, safari goers make the fatal mistake of forgetting that they're surrounded by wild animals-that no matter how well managed the environment may be, it is filled with wild things, dangerous to their core. The Bible is like that too. When we read these ancient texts —no matter how carefully managed they've been —we're visiting wild and dangerous terrain, and who knows what we'll find there. The biblical world is full of monsters. Uncanny creatures lurk in every direction, from the hybrid monsters surrounding God in heaven to the stunning array of peculiar beings touching down on earth, and from giants in the land of milk and honey to Leviathan swimming beneath the seas. Most have been tamed by time and tradition. The cherubim -menacing, winged animal guardians-have become heavenly babies, marketed for feel-good cuteness on greeting cards and framed prints to be hung on a bathroom wall. The seraphim, multi-winged creatures with serpentine bodies and humanoid hands, have become conflated with angels. Angels, meanwhile, have acquired the soft-edged glow of a Hallmark card, even as they are some of the deadliest shapeshifters in a universe teeming with bizarre figures. Other monsters are hidden altogether, masked in translation as natural phenomena, like the demons Pestilence, Plague, and the Chill, who'd be prime comic book villains - except that they work for The Good Guy.”
February 5, 20242 yr In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
June 23, 20242 yr His and her’s Miranda July. Seems at the zeitgeist currently. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/style/miranda-july-all-fours-profile.html?unlocked_article_code=1.100.tF7J.JHSVK5icAIOC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb [gift article]
March 11, 20251 yr I was going to wait longer to post until I read further, but, at least today it's (Kindle and Apple Books versions) $1.99 (of course after I just paid $14.99 three days ago ) and one of the sources for the Martyr Made podcast I recently mentioned. Should any recent government actions make you daydream about resistance (ex. SDS, The Weathermen, The Symbionese Liberation Army, The FALN, The Black Liberation Army, etc.), even if sometimes ineffective, dangerous, or misdirected, give Bryan Burrough's Days of Rage a try. So far so good. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LFZ84PC?_bbid=259687172&tag=bookbubemail1-20 https://books.apple.com/us/book/days-of-rage/id895204913 Edited March 12, 20251 yr by blessingx
March 22, 20251 yr Fall or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson Just started this (late as usual)... reminds me of the Amazon Prime show, Upload (also highly recommended): Edited March 23, 20251 yr by HiWire
April 11, 20251 yr Another "welcome back" gift from a friend of mine. Starting to read it tonight. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoğlu and James Robinson.
April 24, 20251 yr Started to read Binding Chaos series by Heather Marsh. Almost finished first book. Gonna start "The creation of me, them and, us" tomorrow. Started to dig into reading E-Books. Lot easier to read while lying on bed with Tablet on the stand.
April 25, 20251 yr Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd. Un put downable. Although recently published it is the first in a trilogy.
April 25, 20251 yr I've read two novels by William Boyd: Restless (2006), a WWII espionage novel and Solo (2013), a James Bond novel. He's a great writer - I'll definitely check out Gabriel's Moon. Edited April 25, 20251 yr by HiWire
May 7, 20251 yr Re-reading a chunk of Isaac Asimov's stuff - Foundation series, Robot yarns etc. The Foundation trilogy was published in 1951-3 and have really stood the test of time. I became curious how Asimov died. Turned out a too early 72. But in his early 60's he had a triple heart bypass (in 1983), and was given a blood transfusion tainted with AIDS - and that was what killed him in due course. Same thing happed to the tennis player Arthur Ashe aged 49 - again following heart bypass surgery in 1983.
August 10, 2025Aug 10 As I referenced in the film thread awhile back, I haven’t been reading much the last few years, generally bored in and out of work, and live silly close to Stanford, so Continuing Studies it is. Took classes on (internal v. external) Meaning (Julia Sweeney, on topic, was another student ) and Middle East history. Reading about split between primary and auxiliary texts, but if you’re looking for non-summery end of summer reading... Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (aka The Joyous Science) & Beyond Good and Evil, Cleveland & Bunton’s History of the Modern Middle East, and Gelvin’s The New Middle East. Yeah, stuff I should have read 30 years ago. Two classes are too much with work, so cutting down to one, but standby for Mesopotamian archaeology recommendations next.
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