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Friday, December 26th, 2008
I realized this week that my sister Kat’s boyfriend Reid is fearless.
Reid climbs in his spare time, so he likes hanging off of cliffs with his fingernails, but now I know he will also brave a foot of snow to pick up his girlfriend’s sister (thank you, Reid) at the airport.
Here’s our ride [...]
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
rating: 3 of 5 stars
I think of Malcolm Gladwell books as a sophisticated guilty pleasure.
He Who Must Name Patterns is the darling of airport bookstores (which I think amuses him; there is a part on airplane crashes in Outliers that is difficult to read on a flight, similar to beginning [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
I’ve posted the below review on the Goodreads site; of all the spooky literature I crave in October, this play might be my favorite.
Proof: A Play by David Auburn
My review on Goodreads
rating: 4 of 5 stars
“Proof” is ideal for the witching hours of the night, when you cannot sleep, idly [...]
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
I’ve joined the Goodreads book community, and I may post a review on kthread from time to time. Below is the first review I’ve written for the site, which is a very active community of readers and reviewers. Let me know if you’d like me to send the book to you now that I’ve finished [...]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
The best way to see Chicago skyscrapers might just be from a gondola on the ferris wheel at Navy Pier.
John and I ascended to see the late Friday afternoon skyline, which John perhaps would have preferred to see from the ground,
(Read the rest after the jump)
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
In recognition of Captain America’s return to Charlottesville, we deemed this past Saturday America Day II: Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through.
Like last year’s first America Day, we determined to spend the day doing very American things; this time, relating to music.
(Follow the rest of the adventure after the jump–)
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Friday after work, my colleague Jen and I went to the collective show Artomatic (2121 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA), conveniently located across the street, to support two of the talented people we work with, Mal Jones and Chris Bishop.
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Last spring Peter Kline of the UVA MFA program read two triolets (a poetic form in iambic tetrameter with the rhyme scheme ABaAabAB that was new to me) at our graduate conference. The first two lines are also the last, but their meaning the second time has shifted slightly. The first line is repeated half-way [...]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
The worst buzzword of late (intertwingling) and thoughts about Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2006
Top ten books I have given as gifts.
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