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gridlore"I've got my own system. Books, young man, books. Thousands of them. If time wasn't so important, I'd show you something. My library. Thousands of books." - Samuel T. Cogley, Star Trek TOS - Court Martial
Last Monday I had to go do a one on one session with a Google engineer at their Mountain View campus. I can't tell you what it was about, other than it was interesting and at one point involved me lying down on a couch. What I can tell you is I was rewarded with a $100 voucher that, since I couldn't use it at Amazon, I turned into a $100 Barnes & Noble gift card. That payment came through today, and I was able to clear a lot of my wishlist.
I picked up Embers of War and Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell. Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World by Neil Shister. Finally, a trio of histories: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin, The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward, and finally the Penguin Classics edition of The Histories by Herodotus. Because if you love history, start with the Father of Lies!
Last Monday I had to go do a one on one session with a Google engineer at their Mountain View campus. I can't tell you what it was about, other than it was interesting and at one point involved me lying down on a couch. What I can tell you is I was rewarded with a $100 voucher that, since I couldn't use it at Amazon, I turned into a $100 Barnes & Noble gift card. That payment came through today, and I was able to clear a lot of my wishlist.
I picked up Embers of War and Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell. Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World by Neil Shister. Finally, a trio of histories: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin, The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward, and finally the Penguin Classics edition of The Histories by Herodotus. Because if you love history, start with the Father of Lies!
