Hello, Seattle! Tonight I finally made it down to Krav Maga Seattle to determine if they were a reasonable place to refer my friends who have inquired about self defense. Indeed, they are. Krav has a specific philosophy -- basically, harder, faster, more, fight fight fight never stop fighting. (See subject line.) They are all-around ( Read more... )

The most internally complicated book I have read in some time, Neil Peart's "Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road" had been multiply recommended to me by gentlemen of my acquaintance who love Rush. It's a journey-saga of a musician whose only daughter was killed in a car accident just shortly before his wife was diagnosed with and then died of ( Read more... )

I have read two fabulous books about science recently, one about Cascadian geology, forestry, and public policy, the other about how and where science was advancing during Europe's Dark Ages. I enthusiastically recommend both of these. ( Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens )

( Tulugaq: An Oral History of Ravens )

First, a little book tourism: I have new travel ambitions. Portugal. Buenos Aires. And Los Angeles. I've been talking with my friends about where we've gone to ebooks and where we haven't, the loss of the social aspect of reading (I hate it when I go to the Silent Reading Party and I can't tell what anyone else is reading because they have an ( Read more... )

( Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions )

( Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves )

I was wandering through a bookstore today and discovered that there is a book titled "There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories". Of course I bought it. How can you not, with a title like that? <3 Russian literature. Also, dear fellow readers of "Anna Karenina", I am mostly done. How are y' ( Read more... )