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I'd quote Burgess Meredith in the Twilight Zone, but that would be tempting fate.
"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!