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Decorative!
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. From above, Bond Chapel, the Phoenix (there's only one), and a dining hall used in filming Hogwarts scenes in one of the Harry Potter movies.
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Travelled to Ojai for a weekend house party -- found the above sign on a hike. Didn't see any cute blue little turricula flowers.
Went to Obama town meeting with Joe near downtown. The streets were lined with fans.
Visible by the roadside on our hikes up dixie canyon. nasturtiums?
best ever use of an exercise ball ...
Nine Men's Morris -- previously mentioned.
This year I just sent my maps to Las Vegas for the trade show -- I didn't go myself.
Solar power near Nicole's outbuilding.
Measuring a distance for pipe by unrolling yarn several times, then seeing how long the yarn was, at Nicole's.
Artichokes from the garden -- delicious
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definitely visit the chalet...
yet another person more stylishly dressed than myself ...
Joe was gracious enough to join me on Fathers Day 2008 for what turned out to be a very VERY steep hike.
Rainbow ridge at a secure and undisclosed location...
The steep part is hidden just below the well marked rocks at the edge below. Zip zop zoop!
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From top to bottom, what's going on? Instead of writing book reviews, I have quite lazily just taken some bad snapshots of my summer reading. The book I really like the most, the first volume of George Washington's diaries, is not shown.
Of course, Hibernate must be WINTER reading.
MySQL -- one of the worst manuals ever. It did supply 2 essential facts, though.
Effective Java -- putatively serious, the study group set a high pitch of hilarity on every chapter. Plus, we really really REALLY appreciate Bloch's book. A great look at what's new in Java 6 if you've been away from Java for awhile.
EIP -- messaging systems. Coming to a study group near me.
Armstrong's book -- in process of reading -- all about fundamentalism. Good.
Founders at work: startup stories. Crazy fun. Haven't finished
John Tyler Bonner got his PhD in 1947, studied slime molds (the social amoeba) for 60 years, and then wrote this book. Counterintuitively, the book is pithy (i.e. slime is not). Very many extremely clever experiments are described.
Brian Wansink's book about his food consumption experiments is just hysterically funny. Long story short: container size rules.
Think smart. One of the best better brain books.
Schott's Idle Time book. Very funny. Now I know the "other truth" of Nine Men's Morris (i.e. what it is -- the first truth is "nine men's Morris is filled up with mud").
Coyne's book is the sequel to Neil Shubin's "Your Inner Fish". Actually liked f ish better -- still reading Coyne. Anti evolutionists are not comfortable with science, per se. Something to think about.
Eating the Sun came highly recommended by a classmate in the coal power industry. It is a very thorough and well articulated story of how we have come to understand photosynthesis. Ackerly, I think you'd really like this one.
Tim Ecott's Vanilla -- one of the best business books ever. Vanilla has been global forever, BTW.
Culture of Defeat is at the very top of a tall stack of sabbatical reading for Marlies Mueller, next to whom I was seated at a wedding dinner earlier this summer. The first section (on the American Civil War) and the last section (on Germany's defeat in WW 1) were fascinating and, I think re-readable. I skipped the second section, devoted largely to the term 'revanche'.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rll/people/faculty/mueller.html
The Book Nobody Read -- highly recommended. No, it's not _this_ book. And yes, lots of people HAVE read the book in question (Copernicus's de Revolutionibus), as it turned out. Gingerich relentlessly tracks down each copy in order to prove it. Definitely a page turner!
John Darnton's murder mystery set in a newspaper very much like the New York Times was lots of fun.
Rex Stout's first three, set in 1934, '35, and '36, each one a gripping page-turner. The f at detective drinks beer and never leaves his brownstone except once -- to save his faithful sidekick Archie.
Michiou Kaku's wonderful excursion into what's science fiction (mind reading) and what's not (just about everything else, you just might have to wait a century or three.)
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An interesting feature of Subclipse is the ability (within Eclipse) to create and send a patch (pre-commit to SVN) to another developer.
http://svn.collab.net/subclipse/help/index.jsp Overview
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Here are a couple of films that can be transferred to an iPod,
using conversion software available at www.handbrake.fr
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Northerly view of the mountains at sunset.
From left to right: headphones, Dell Quad core (Vista) (24 inch monitor), Macbook pro (17 inch), Behringer C-1 microphone attached through Blue Icicle (that little blue thing), LaCrosse Technologies radio-controlled clock.
Two 16 Gigabyte USB sticks (both filled up) used to transfer demographic data. Sending these babies through the mail is a lot faster than downloading.
Please note in bookcase: Ski KT22 plaques made for me by Nicole when she was in school, and finally I skiied itt last winter: I carry ski movies I made of a run down KT22 at sunset in my iPod touch.
While software work goes on inside, bird life on the balcony continues apace.
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