What's so hard to understand about Slower Traffic Keep Right?
"One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I am currently watching Being John Malkovich.
Some good news from Mars. After several days of failed attempts at obtaining a soil sample that can be analyzed from the clumpy regolith of the Martian Arctic, the Mars Phoenix Lander shook a sample into its "oven." Now we wait for about a week to receive the results of the probe's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer. More here and here.
My favorite song as a young child, and one that I still sing to my 8-year-old daughter, is My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.
I had some very good shrimp tacos for dinner tonight.
I'm reading a very interesting book right now, one that wasn't on my reading list until yesterday.
I would like to write a novel, but I don't know where to start.
Over the past month I have finished:
The Martian General's Daughter, Theodore Judson
All Tomorrow's Parties, William Gibson
Oath of Fealty, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
In progress:
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett.
On deck:
Extraordinary Relationships, Roberta Gilbert.
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemerovsky.
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World, Carl Zimmer.
Spook Country, William Gibson.