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Books 2 through 6 were bought on the same day. Our local bookstore is a wonderful, amazing place. And it's also quite dangerous... for my wallet. I managed to spend less than on my most recent trip! Hooray!
I'm halway through reading book #1 and I've finished book #8.
This is all sitting ontop of my Hackintosh (more details on my wiki).
0) Acetaminophen (Tylenol) -- For the pain I will inevitably experience caused by the expansion of my mind and eye strain I will develop whilst reading these fine books.
1) The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch -- I originally got interesting in this book because of the amazing lecture he gave after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. He will be missed.
2) The Time Machine by H.G. Wells -- Just seems like a book that I would like. I love dystopian novels and I'm sure this will be no exception. The wiki article mentions that it was inspired by book #4 in this stack.
3) Contact by Carl Sagan -- The movie version of Contact has been my all-time favorite for many years now. The book inspired me to read many of Sagan's academic works. I don't plan on re-reading contact anytime soon, but I really wanted to own a copy of it because the book is also one of my all-time favorites.
4) On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin -- While performing (speaking? telling? ... it's not really a performance) Letting Go of God, Julia Sweeney mentions that The Origin of Species is actually an easy read. Evolution is something I'd like a better understanding of, so as long as the writing isn't too archaic, I'll set some time aside for it.
5) Silent Spring by Rachel Carson -- After switching my major to Environmental Science and while reading a lot on environmental issues, I kept hearing a lot about this book. It turns out it's what sparked the current environmental movement. I figured it was extremely relevant to my new course in life.
6) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View on the Search for God by Carl Sagan -- Again, Sagan is one of my favorite authors and is definitely a hero of mine. I was looking for The Origin of Species and turned around to find a whole shelf full of Sagan's books. This one caught my eye because I'd never seen it before (and here I thought I knew about every book he had published). It turns out it was published in 2006 and is actually an edited version of a lecture series he gave in 1985. I'm not sure when I'll get around to reading it, but I didn't want to forget to come get it one day.
7) Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett -- Another one that I found while looking for The Origin of Species. I knew about Dennett from watching The Four Horsemen, a two hour talk with four well-known atheists. I consider myself agnostic, but Dennett seems to have some interesting thoughts on The Origin of Species.
8) Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart -- This book is what spurred me to change my major. It's all about how the current way we design our products (obviously) generates a lot of waste and how it only takes some creative thought to come up with some ways to put our materials in closed-cycles and eliminate the idea of waste.
Strobist: SB-600 facing behind me and towards the ceiling. Turns the ceiling into a giant softbox. When I pointed it straight up (instead of backwards and up) it would create some glare on the glossy covers.personal copy machines
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