More STUFF

[prog]

Went to Borders today.

• Music has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada. I discovered this band through either Tag's Trance Trip or Groove Salad or perhaps both. N&M have their Geogaddi album. They're great.


• Organic Chemistry, a HarperCollins College Outline by Michael Smith. A phonebook-sized volume with 550 newsprint pages of chemistry basics. It seems to be just what I need to build up some basic vocabulary relevant to my job. I feel the pang of my ignorance most strongly when working on the project upon which I focus my little candle of an ego: some semblance of a Perl chemistry package. (Certainly, I have more ego invested in this than book. This is because it's an interally-inspired project. Book, really, is someone else's idea. I don't think this will hurt book's quality. If anything, it will make me happier to see book done... and out of the way.)


• Handbook of the Elements by Samuel Ruben. Just a little dictionary of the known elements and their major properties. This should prove quite useful to some upcoming programming projects.


• Robin Hobb's Mad Ship, as was inevitable. The cover art may be one of the finest SF/F covers I have seen, as far as the beauty/accuracy-to-story ratio is concerned.


• Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. My first DVD purchase (despite the fact I've owned a DVD player, within my laptop, for a year and a half) and a long-anticipated one here at Minas Morgul. (The other morgudlians are in Maine until tomorrow, so this will be a nice surprise for them.) (Maybe I should announce the Time of the Viewing of the First Disc, for the benefit of local friends?) I received a security escort to the cashier once I had the Borders gbtc fetch these discs for me. Actually, the discs got the escort (they weren't that expensive, but maybe it was a slow day), and I happened to follow. As he and I rode the escalator downstairs, the guard said that he was looking forward to the upcoming Star Trek: Nemesis movie.


• The Crossing by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Actually bought at Disc Diggers in Davis Square, not Borders. I like Brubeck a lot.


• The sight of morris dancers cavorting, with accordion accompaniment, in front of Borders. I had never seen such a thing before, but I knew what it was on sight, unless there is a dance that isn't morris dancing which involves men with bells strapped to their shins leaping about while waving colorful cloths and banging sticks together.

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Example of not thinking things through can be seen with this riddle found within a bag of Cracker Jack:

What kind of key won't open any door?
A monkey!

I doubt the accuracy of this statement. I guess I should stop buying Cracker Jack now. Oh well; it's bad for me, anyway.

Comments

borders? dude.

[cthulhia]

and all those independent bookstores in Harvard Square (not the Coop), Harvard Books (near bartleys), Wordsworth...
ah well.

and, I will have to see the cover of your Mad Ship. The one I saw had a grievous plot error in it.

Re: borders? dude.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Ehh, I just felt like going to Boston today. I had a plan to hit H&M, too, but I think I spent my clothing budget on media instead. Doy

I wuv Harvard Books. Maybe I go there tomorrow.

Re: borders? dude.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Also, I based my judgement of the cover on the fact that all the characters depicted thereon (Paragon, Althea(I think?), and a serpent) all look great, jibing with my mental images of them. The various things that they're shown doing might not actually happen in the story. Actually, I will be sad if that's the case.

I did notice that Paragon's scar has one point too many in the painting. I hope that's not what upset you. :)