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10. Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America's Nonbelievers: This is actually book number 7, but I forgot to include it! Pretty dry, as you might expect from the title, but full of interesting nuggets of information. Basically a short analysis of atheists based on surveys, including comparisons against "normal" people and fundamentalists.
11. Tricks of the Mind: A book that I found strangely captivating. By Derron Brown, a magician/illusionist/hypontist/etc. The first part of the book is about largely mental tricks, and he includes quite a few nifty ones about memory. The latter part of the book he spends bashing pseudoscience and religion. Pretty refreshing, as I wasn't expecting it, and was worried that he might be one of those crazy NLPers. But no need for the worry, since he came down pretty strongly against NLP. It was a surprisingly good look into the mind of an atheist. I was actually a bit surprised at that part, since I borrowed the book mostly for the parts on magic.
12. Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: About John Finkel and his route through Magic, blackjack, and poker. A fun and fast read which really makes me want to play Magic again. It brushes against the mental vs. physical games topic, which is always interesting for me.
Picked up with South of the Border today for a spring league game. It was just a trial run to see if I'd fit in with the team, so I'm very much hoping for a yes! In any case, we played Guard, Seize Them!, normally in the A pool. Needless to say, it was a savage beating. We scored only two points! (Though I have to mention that I threw one of those and caught the other, so my play wasn't a total disaster.)
Playing with completely new people was an interesting experience. I had the opportunity to do so before at Dangle Wrangle (as it was a hat tournament), but picking up with an actual team felt rather strange. I didn't know what people liked to throw, or how they preferred to cut. Probably also because I didn't get much playtime with the team due to the beating handed to us by GST.
Went to a rock-climbing class with some friends on Saturday, and spent the rest of the time bouldering. It was pretty fun, and I'm looking forward to going again.
11. Tricks of the Mind: A book that I found strangely captivating. By Derron Brown, a magician/illusionist/hypontist/etc. The first part of the book is about largely mental tricks, and he includes quite a few nifty ones about memory. The latter part of the book he spends bashing pseudoscience and religion. Pretty refreshing, as I wasn't expecting it, and was worried that he might be one of those crazy NLPers. But no need for the worry, since he came down pretty strongly against NLP. It was a surprisingly good look into the mind of an atheist. I was actually a bit surprised at that part, since I borrowed the book mostly for the parts on magic.
12. Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: About John Finkel and his route through Magic, blackjack, and poker. A fun and fast read which really makes me want to play Magic again. It brushes against the mental vs. physical games topic, which is always interesting for me.
Picked up with South of the Border today for a spring league game. It was just a trial run to see if I'd fit in with the team, so I'm very much hoping for a yes! In any case, we played Guard, Seize Them!, normally in the A pool. Needless to say, it was a savage beating. We scored only two points! (Though I have to mention that I threw one of those and caught the other, so my play wasn't a total disaster.)
Playing with completely new people was an interesting experience. I had the opportunity to do so before at Dangle Wrangle (as it was a hat tournament), but picking up with an actual team felt rather strange. I didn't know what people liked to throw, or how they preferred to cut. Probably also because I didn't get much playtime with the team due to the beating handed to us by GST.
Went to a rock-climbing class with some friends on Saturday, and spent the rest of the time bouldering. It was pretty fun, and I'm looking forward to going again.