Book: The Beckham Experiment
I read the excerpt of Grant Wahl’s article in Sports Illustrated first. After that appetizer, I was grateful to my brother for providing the full book of The Beckham Experiment. Not much to add here,...
View ArticleBook: The Associate
Another one from my brother, The Associate by John Grisham, doesn’t stick in my mind at all. I know I read it this summer, but until I dug up the website right now, I didn’t remember a fraction of the...
View ArticleBook: How We Decide
Deflating the myth of rational choice, Jonah Lehrer’s How We Decide runs through the research about decision-making and decisions, and comes out with the perhaps refreshing news that we go with our gut...
View ArticleBook: Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?
This business book was a freebie, and I got little more than what I paid for it. Waiting for Your Cat to Bark? Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing just isn’t new stuff after a decade-plus...
View ArticleBook: The Hostage
While I panned In Danger’s Path, I enjoyed The Hostage from W.E.B. Griffin for one reason: I listened to it. As an unabridged audiobook which doesn’t demand much attention, nor require a constant...
View ArticleBook: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom was Cory Doctorow’s first novel. More famous (to me) for being given away for free in many digital formats, Down and Out appeared to me in physical form, as a...
View ArticleBook: Eastern Standard Tribe
Another Doctorow paperback pickup, Eastern Standard Tribe thrilled me more than his earlier novel. With a simple yet imaginative idea, Doctorow makes corporate espionage seem like a new story. The...
View ArticleLast two books of 2009
There are two more books I read in 2009, but I’m not going to record them tonight. Soldiers of Reason, a history of the RAND Corporation, and The Contractor, a spy novel, were both library pickups, and...
View ArticleSmart reminder option from ULINE.com
I made a purchase of some shipping boxes from ULINE.com today. There’s a nice touch, captured in this screenshot: an opt-in for getting an email reminder to repeat this order in the future. Set to one...
View ArticleHappy 28th to Ma.tt
Enjoyed cheering Matt on tonight as he turned 28 and seeing various other friends. More broadly, this celebration reminded me that sitting in my inbox (for too long now) are plans to re-start my own...
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