Because some jerk did it to me...

May 24, 2005 07:52

1) Total number of books owned?:
I'd ballpark it around 100, but it's tough to say exactly with a fair number of them still in my folks' collection.

2) The last book I bought?:
Design Patterns by Gamma et al

3) The last book I read?:
The last book I finished was The Goal by Eli Goldratt. The last book I was physically reading was Drawing on the ( Read more... )

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stick_figure May 24 2005, 13:36:22 UTC
Ooh ooh I got meme'd!!! :o

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gotardz May 24 2005, 14:20:13 UTC
Yes, I would be very interested in that and would gladly reimburse you if you could get that to me. Thanks also for the recommendation.

No, I'm not a (real) developer, so I'd be hard pressed to convince my company to get me a Safari account (aren't they rather expensive?). And yes, I liked Goldratt's book a lot. That is to say, I liked his ideas a lot, whereas the book itself was just interesting enough to keep me reading. I think his system-level approach has applications in a variety of fields beyond industrial engineering (such as the real-time dsp systems with which my company works).

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ybeayf May 24 2005, 15:37:53 UTC
Haha.

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yts88 May 24 2005, 23:52:44 UTC
Foundation was an excellent series

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