sneezypb

10 launches are scheduled between now and May 31, 2010

Book 1 – 2003
Book 2 – not done
Book 3 – in progress
Book 4 – not done
Book 5 – not done
Book 6 – in progress
Book 7 – not done

If I finish the four I am reading now, then I will meet this goal. http://www.ezrasf.com/wplog/reading

From http://www.ezrasf.com/wplog/reading

5) Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae – Steven Pressfield – 25-FEB-2008 – Herodotus’s Histories didn’t feel compelling, but it did provide context. Frank Miller’s 300 visually captured the excitement and energy we ought to feel and usually missing. Its only weakness, I thought, was context. Gates of Fire finds a great middle ground by providing both context and energy.
6) Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time – Dava Sobel – 05-MAR-2008 – I’ve been to Greenwich and seen the clocks, so it was good to better understand the importance.
7) A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age – Daniel H. Pink – 06-MAR-2008 – How to tap into the resources for the right side of the brain in business.
8) Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology – Max Jammer – 07-MAR-2008 – Okay.
9) On Education – Krishnamurti – 18-APR-2008 – Difficult to read as philosophically very different from what I believe.
10) The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America – Kenneth Pollack – Done – Helped me understand the difficulties and appreciate Pollack’s prescription for solving this.
11) The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child – Thom Hartmann and Lucy Jo Palladino – Done -
12) The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman – Done – Possibly even better than The Golden Compass.
13) The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature – Matthew Ridley – Done – About the Red Queen hypothesis where organisms are locked in evolutionary arms races against its parasites, other members of its species, and other species.

By next month I should have finished…
14) The Amber Sypglass – Philip Pullman – in progress 90% – Conclusion of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife.

15) The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design – Richard Dawkins – 80% done – An atheist defense for why evolution does not need God. The design of life is too haphazard to have been by a gifted designer.

I have 4 others in progress and probably close to if not done within the next 2 months. http://www.ezrasf.com/wplog/reading

I’ve finished:
3) Doc Holliday
4) The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs

Currently reading: http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=sneezypb

Finished two books:
1) What is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect
2) How Doctors Think

Currently reading:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list?shelf=currently-reading

My favorite series!

Think I made it home 3 times last year. So, we’ll shoot for four times this year. Jan, Apr, Jul, Nov, and Dec (make up/bonus).

http://walgreens.com/ sent several these here, printed 4×5s, and had mom pick them up for grandma.

http://snapfish.com/ Did a fantastic job printing my 5×7s and 8×10s.

Its only an average of 2 books a month + 1 more book. This will also help cut back on the number of unread books I have.

Wow… Have about a hundred to go through. I’ve not been good to myself over the past couple years. I only get through about 300-400 pages a month on average. This one will take years….

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Want to declutter before I ID what ought to go.

Done in 2007
10. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
17. Cidade de Deus (2002)
24. Citizen Kane (1941)
26. North by Northwest (1959)
45. Chinatown (1974)
66. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
70. Raging Bull (1980)
76. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
80. All About Eve (1950)
81. Some Like It Hot (1959)
82. The Great Escape (1963)
85. On the Waterfront (1954)

Still To Do
14. No Country for Old Men (2007)
15. Rear Window (1954)
20. C’era una volta il West (1968)
30. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
39. Vertigo (1958)
41. The Departed (2006)
42. American History X (1998)
43. Paths of Glory (1957)
44. M (1931)
46. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
47. The Third Man (1949)
50. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
52. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
53. Leben der Anderen, Das (2006)
54. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
55. The Pianist (2002)
56. Double Indemnity (1944)
57. The Shining (1980)
60. Untergang, Der (2004)
67. Metropolis (1927)
71. Rashômon (1950)
72. Modern Times (1936)
74. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
83. Touch of Evil (1958)
84. Amadeus (1984)
87. The Prestige (2006)
88. City Lights (1931)
89. The Elephant Man (1980)
91. The Sting (1973)
94. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
95. Strangers on a Train (1951)
96. Salaire de la peur, Le (1953)
97. The Apartment (1960)

Now its a matter of waiting to see what happens.

No way I’ll be able to do this. Too much other stuff going on.

I’m too lazy….

Went to Jekyll Island for Memorial Day weekend. I got great pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sneezypb/tags/jekyllisland/

Binary is neat. However, its more important to know what it is than to be able to read it. Many computer items are like this: Binary, Hexadecimal, RGB, IP addresses, etc.

Its not nearly has hard as it looks. I’ve created thousands of web pages at dozens of web sites over the past 10 years. Doing it is easy. Keeping it maintained? That is the hard part. One has to have something to say, which all too odten isn’t really the case.