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Cake
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I have been baking cakes! The cake recipes from the Alice's Tea Cup Cookbook. Have served me well. In that capacity, the book comes recommended. However. I cannot yet speak to the usefulness of the chapter on how to throw a tea party. August 21, 2011 at 12:02 AM. I wonder what it says about me that I always jump to the one-star reviews. but have you found the recipes that say to put in 1/4 cup of various spices? Apparently not all quantities were scaled down from bakery scale! August 22, 2011 at 10:59 AM.
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The Box
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The author is Marc Levinson and the subtitle is. How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Ships, trains, trucks. Giant computer-controlled cranes. Operations research. This book is pure nerd porn. Of the sticker price. Shipping containers and integrated shipping changed all this. You ever wonder why you don't hear much about dockworkers and longshoremen these days? It's because docks don't actually need very many of them anymore. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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2014 in Review
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This year I got married to my love, Diana. So the year has been a whirlwind of wedding planning and then getting settled into our new place. Happy new year to you, and here's to a wonderful 2015! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I Still Know What You Learned Last Summer (technical stuff). I'm a software engineer at DNAnexus, Inc. This blog represents the opinion of myself and no one else. Unless specifically noted otherwise, I do not receive free review copies of books or other products mentioned here.
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The Birth of Plenty
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The Birth of Plenty. The Birth of Plenty. William Bernstein proposes a framework to help make sense of how civilizations get on the treadmill of sustained economic growth that has only been attained in the last 200 years. Why was it the English who managed it first, and not, say, the Chinese, or Muslims, both of whom had a tradition of scientific discovery and mathematical inquiry going back a thousand years or more? Bernstein argues that four factors are necessary for nations to break out of stagnancy:.
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Hackers
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Is Steven Levy's classic social-anthropological account of software pioneers and the computer revolution. Levy's history takes us from the birth of the hacker culture and the hacker ethic, hammered out in Building 26 at MIT, to the commercialization of software, exemplified by On-Line Systems (better known by its later name, Sierra On-Line) and its seminal series of computer games, and the creation of GNU by Richard Stallman. Also serves to document the hacker culture and the hacker ethic. By the way, in...
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People who are not in our league VIII
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People who are not in our league VIII. Sir Ravi The Juggler, via BoingBoing. March 5, 2013 at 12:05 PM. This is so much easier than the other examples in this series. I bet an average adult could learn this in an hour a day for a month, tops. There are tons of YouTube videos of different people doing this. I havent perused them yet to see if any of them use both hands (which this guy, sadly, does not). March 10, 2013 at 6:19 AM. PWANIOL, in a fairly literal sense:. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch?
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Fiction Roundup
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By Haruki Murakami. As usual with Murakami's books, explaining the plot is neither necessary nor helpful. And, as usual,. Is endlessly imaginative, entertaining, and a pleasure to read. The story seems to hang together better and have more of a resolution than Murakami's others. Also, there are a number of structural symmetries that add some interesting layers. All in all, somewhat haunting, and recommended. Do with technology. Touching, and perhaps my favorite Neal Stephenson; recommended.
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Brain Rules
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. Is John Medina's guide to some of the principles that underlie how the brain works and how we can best take advantage of those principles when living out our lives. Even though I've read plenty of popular psychology books, I found a lot of interesting nuggets here, including:. How exercise boosts cognitive performance (exercise stimulates, among other things, generation of new blood vessels in the brain).
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2012 Book Reviews
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I continue to be alive (and I continue to read books), not that you would know it from this blog. By Frank Brady. The subtitle is. Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness. Yet when considered not just as a story but as a biography, I think there is something missing. Certainly every biography relies on speculation to some extent when it comes to the inner mental life of the subject, but one thing that. Made clear was that Fischer's thoughts and m...
