Books
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Media Diet (Fall/Winter 2019)
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Here’s a list of movies, TV, books, or music I’ve “consumed” recently. I’m currently reading What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets and Same Kind of Different As Me. I’ve also started re-watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, in order, beginning with Season 1, Episode 1. John Wick 1, 2, and 3. I…
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David Goggins on Weaknesses
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If you are on the hunt for your 100 percent you should catalog your weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Don’t ignore them. Be prepared for them, because in any endurance event, in any high-stress environment, your weaknesses will surface like bad karma, build in volume, and overwhelm you. Unless you get ahead of them first. David Goggins,…
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Recent Media Diet (Fall -ish, 2018)
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I don’t consume that much media, but I thought I’d make a list of what I’ve been into recently. Feel free to leave recommendations for me.
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The Alienist, Old Book, New TV Show
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One of my favorite books is called The Alienist, by Caleb Carr. I read this book in my undergraduate abnormal psychology class. Yes, the picture in this post is my actual book from college. The book is about a psychologist, or an “alienist,” trying to profile a serial killer. In class, we were assigned certain…
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I used to buy books once in awhile, but I realized I have too much stuff. I borrowed actual books from the library, but all that changed when I discovered you can check out eBooks from the library and read them on my Kindle. Each library has a certain number of copies of the digital…
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Amazon’s Best Books of 2017
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Books, books, books! Amazon released its list of Best Books of 2017, complete with editors’ picks and gift ideas. I’m excited mostly because I’m always looking for book recommendations. As I retweeted Trip Lee: Book recommendations is my love language — Trip Lee (@TripLee) October 31, 2017 Gifts I don’t usually buy books as gifts…
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My Library
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I really need to get rid of a lot of my junk. I must say I’ve gotten a lot better about books these last couple of years since I starting borrowing ebooks and audiobooks from the public library. Guardian cartoons by Tom Gauld (including the one shown above) available as prints here.
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Restorative Justice
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Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right to the people they have harmed. -Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black
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Borrow Kindle books, from the library!
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I’ve had a kindle for quite a while now. I read a lot when I first got it, but then the reading the slowed down. That is, until I loaned the kindle to some friends. Then I realized how I read much more on a kindle. I rarely buy books now, mostly because I have…
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Recommended: Unbroken
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For the last couple of months, I haven’t been able to stop telling people to read a book called Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Of course, I have it listed on my sidebar as recommended reading. It’s one of the best books I’ve read recently. It’s a biography about…
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Snøhetta Works
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This is a book that my architecture/design friend Jaime gave me last month. She likes architecture and she knows that I like pictures, so she figured she would give me a book of photographs of architecture by a Norwegian company called Snøhetta. As she was describing the firm and all their designs, and I asked…
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40% off Borders coupon (thru May 1)
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40% off Borders coupon for any one list-priced item through May 1, 2010.
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Borders 40% off Printable Coupon
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40% off Borders coupon for any one list-priced item through Mar 27, 2010.
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Tony’s List
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I met Tony (along with a bunch of other photographers) in North Beach. He asked how long I had been shooting. I actually never know how to answer this question, but I said I’ve been taking pictures for a long time, but took a more meaningful approach only this past academic year. He asked if…
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Borders 40% off in-store coupon
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Borders 40% off List ANY BOOK! direct link coupon (exp 12/21-limit one book)
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Jeff Dunham – Achmed the Dead Terrorist
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I was watching this guy on TV several weeks ago. Pretty good ventriloquist with funny material. Personal fun fact: when I was young, I tried to pick up ventriloquism by reading books. I didn’t get very good, so instead, I learned to juggle.
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Ask
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I had become deeply disturbed by many of my classes in which we were no longer able to ask whether or not there is a God. A student who is never challenged to ask such questions may be a student divorced from the possiblity that a God exists, and that in knowing a loving God,…
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Borders Coupon
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30% off one item at Borders, with $10 purchase. Thru 3/23/08.
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Entertainment escape from reality
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I watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose last weekend. Nothing special. The courtroom acting was ente…
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Book Tag
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Sacrod has tagged me with something I never should have gotten. It’s quite embarrassing actually…