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Reading list

Want to compare notes? check out what I’ve been reading, what’s on my list, what I have waiting on my shelf and some of the reviews I’ve written:

Current list:

  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley. (about 1/2 way now, could not hold my attention too well. will probably come back to it soon.)
  • Letters to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris. Follow up to End of Faith
  • The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins. (I just picked this back up. Like BNW it wasn’t very engaging… until now jun 08)
  • Into Thin Air, John Krakauer
  • Born Standing up: A Comic’s life, Steve Martin.
  • The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. Andrew Keen.
  • The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. James Surowiecki.
  • The Know it All, A.J. Jacobs
  • The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
  • Life Expectancy, Dean Koontz.
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada, El coronel no tiene quién le escriba

Reviews:

Overtime I also have read tons of books which I did not review, here’s a laundry list I update as I remember:

  • 1984, George Orwell.
  • The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien.
  • Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger.
  • By H.G. Wells, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds.
  • By Stephen King, Four past midnight, Dreamcatcher.
  • By Dean Koontz, By the light of the moon, Odd Thomas, Fear Nothing, Strangers, The Face,
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cien Años de Soledad,
  • The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway.

Also considering:

  • The future of an illusion, Sigmund Freud
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Lord of the Flies

I am constantly in search of new books. Whether I go to Barnes & Noble, or Borders I’m always looking for the next thing to read. I usually take a photo of the books I want to get when I browse through the bookstores I visit. You can see some of those photos on Flickr, in this album. If you have a suggestion for me, please feel free to send me a note, or if you’d like to comment on any of the books I have in here, feel free to leave a comment. Thanks for stopping by!

Atheist Manifesto cover picture Evil men picture New York Times Knowledge picture Science tackles the afterlife picture Way of the peaceful warrior picture

I finished the first one! The end of faith.

A few days ago I shared my reading list, and The end of Faith was at the top of the list. I’d finish this by Wednesday or so. I actually finished it on Tuesday while drinking a white chocolate mocha at Starbucks. I’ve been working on a cool project to giveaway a bad ass prize to a lucky winner, and the details were a little overwhelming, so I needed a break. I opened my backpack to see if I had packed something else to do. I found the book. Continue Reading “I finished the first one! The end of faith.” »

night bridge

Here’s my latest HDR shot, let me know what you think if you want. I appreciate any feedback I can get. This was taken late at night, and it was pretty much pitch black. It seems that darker scenes are better HDR candidates.

Check out my first HDR photo


red corner

Originally uploaded by muychingon

I took about 40 photos over a couple hours at the Spectrum. I wasn’t looking for any “special” shot as much as I was trying a lot of different subjects to make good HDR candidates. I thought this dark corner by the fish market would be suitable. It turns out, it is one of the few, if not the only one that I actually like how it turned out.

Weekend roundup

This weekend was awesome. After the rain the city felt fresh and crisp, like coming out of a shower. Besides my regular dose of work I got some free time to play with some of my new toys. Here’s a “quick” summary. Also, I wanted to share a bunch of sites I’ve found, I think you could find them useful.

Poweriser udpate: I took them out only on Sunday because Saturday I was mostly busy and I was afraid it would rain again rain… So far wet slick sidewalks aren’t so good for me. I’ll have a video of my latest footage compiled soon. Since I just published my other poweriser summary of the day, I don’t have much to add right now, except that I took a lot of video. But I haven’t even looked at it so I don’t know if its any good, stay tuned… Continue Reading “Weekend roundup” »