This post contains NO spoilers. I saw The Time Traveler’s Wife with my wife today. I had read the book about a year ago, and had been looking forward to the movie. I wasn’t disappointed — I thought the movie was very moving and captured the spirit of the book, even if it didn’t capture [...]
Posts Tagged ‘books’
Books and movies
Posted: 16 August 2009 in UncategorizedTags: adaptations, books, douglas adams, movies, time traveler's wife
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Learning Scala
Posted: 11 July 2009 in UncategorizedTags: books, friends, programming languages, ruby, scala, twitter
Two weeks ago, I picked up my copy of Programming in Scala, which had been languishing on my shelf for months. I pre-purchased it since I went to high school with one of the authors (Lex Spoon). His mother, incidentally, was also my favorite math teacher. When I started my new job back in September [...]
Books for Christmas
Posted: 4 January 2009 in UncategorizedTags: books, christmas, collective intelligence, computational linguistics, computer science, data visualization, evolutionary computing, genetic algorithms, string algorithms, web 2.0
I got most of the books I wanted the most for Christmas this year. It was a great haul that will keep me busy for a while. Among them were: Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data [...]
Just a few books and stuff I wouldn’t mind getting for Christmas. Just sayin’. Note: sort by priority.
Rest in peace, Michael Crichton
Posted: 5 November 2008 in UncategorizedTags: books, cynicism, environmentalism, global warming, michael crichton, morality, sci-fi
Michael Crichton died yesterday of cancer at age 66. Crichton was a favorite while I was growing up and was probably a big influence in my decision to pursue science as a career. I blazed through The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Eaters of the Dead, Prey, and others. I thought Prey was pretty cool in [...]
An afternoon in Seattle
Posted: 10 August 2008 in UncategorizedTags: books, homeless, sci-fi, seattle, space needle, spaceman blues
I got to spend much less time in Seattle than I did in Boston, though I did manage to walk around the city a bit. I visited Pike Street Market, which looked like it would have been awesome if I could have gotten there much earlier. In the evening when I got there, things were [...]
This post contains no spoilers. I rewatched Primer this week. I had seen it a couple years ago as one of the first movies I got from Netflix the first time I signed up. It was a successful recommendation. Since I was a kid, I have been totally intrigued with time travel and time travel [...]
Xenolinguistics
Posted: 19 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: alien languages, aliens, books, klingon, linguistics, lord of the rings, xenolinguistics
I have been interested in alien (invented) languages since my first brush with elven in the Lord of the Rings. I checked out The Klingon Dictionary from the library in high school and currently own a copy of it and The Languages of Middle Earth. During high school, I nerdily amused myself by attempting to [...]
