Note to self: blog about these books.


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So, Polonius, what am I reading? Mostly just words, words, words...

Sometimes, I read pictures, too.

Anyway, I decided to clean up one of my bookshelves the other day: my fiction shelf. It's only about two-thirds full of fiction books, though. The top two shelves are cookbooks and religious texts.


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This morning was very productive. Got quite a bit of grades done with no hassles at all. Afternoon is running smoothly as well. Just have a little bit more. I'll be finishing up soon. Just taking a bit of a break to blog.

TOPIC #1:Friday night, a cool front blew through the area. Saturday was absolutely lovely. Temps stayed in the high sixties ( Read more... )

(No clever allusions today.)

So, there are more nonfiction books to blog about, and I will blog about them. Oh, yes, they will be blogged about. There will indeed be a blogging this evening, a grand blogging that will be unlike any other blog that ever was blogged! Bloggity blog blog!

BLOGGING NOW:• Outliers ( Read more... )

(Bonus points if you know where the title of this blog post comes from.)So, I've been doing a lot of reading this summer. In fact, I've done quite a lot of reading all year long. But, I haven't blogged much about it. (In fact, I have not blogged about much of anything.) Now I'm going to blog about various nonfiction books, because stating one's ( Read more... )

There was an innocuous exchange that took place between a coworker and myself via Facebook message. It went a little something like this...


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I read Dr. Philip Zimbardo's lengthy tome, The Lucifer Effect some time ago. It's a very verbose and very detailed examination of the hows and whys of what makes a reasonable, good person do horrific, cruel things. In it, he cites some very prominent studies in the field of social psychology:
• The Stanford Prison Experiment (which he ran)
• The ( Read more... )

Does anybody out there read Japanese fluently? And by "fluently," I mean with kanji. I can muddle my way through transliterating kana and looking stuff up, but the borrowed Chinese characters are throwing me off.

So... a little help?


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So, now's about the time when I have a bunch of random snippets of stuff to publish here on the interwebs, none of which I can really stretch out to the size of a full blog posting. So, have some fun-sized mini-blogs that I have pressed into a Frankenstein's monster of a post.

Abbott v. Davis, RE: educationIn the run up to the 2014 Texas ( Read more... )

Friday, December 20thHalf-day holiday party ( Read more... )