Amazon.com: Books: A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates

Amazon.com: Books: A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates

Why am I strangely drawn to this? Maybe it's because I'd like to put this on my coffee table, just to mess with my guests. Next to the Jean Baudrillard. Heh.

Dead Cow Farm. Graves, Robert. 1918. Fairies and Fusiliers

Dead Cow Farm. Graves, Robert. 1918. Fairies and Fusiliers

When I was 16 I discovered a collection of poetry from the First World War, and I believe I kept that book out for several months. This was one of the treasures that I found there.

Suicide in the Trenches. Sassoon, Siegfried. 1918. Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Sassoon is one of my most favorite poets. His work has a simple purity to which I can relate, which makes the content that much more real. I can see him, in a deep trench, by candlelight scribbling these bits and keeping them in a muddy notebook which never left his side. He survived the war.

iTunes, therefore iAm

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPublishedPlaylist?id=217274

I'll add this to my profile as well, but this is a link to my iTunes iMix. I'll keep it reseasonably well updated, but don't get your hopes up.

Yahoo! News - Senior drug addicts increasing

Yahoo! News - Senior drug addicts increasing

And who says the elderly are no fun? Jesus man, doing drugs is lonely enough, can you imagine being OLD and doing that stuff?

I don't look forward to it!

Guardian Unlimited Books | The digested read

I'm in the middle of three books right now:

The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Excellent, not dry at all, with details that add, not distract

Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World. I imagine I will never finish this book, mostly because of it's sheer complexity. Everytime I read a portion I get something new from it. Let's just say there's a lot of theoretical mathematics involved.

The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco. Wow... I just started this last night and read it until I passed out, nose to page. The syntax is different, and it is obviously a translation, but still so rich and personal. I am involved already.

Guardian Unlimited Books The digested read

I hate the Reader's Digest versions, but somehow I think this is pretty slick. Enjoy, as I did.

Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes

Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes:

"How about 3 Doors Down? Pretty cool guys, right? Seem cool to me."

– PRESIDENT BUSH thanking the band for performing, quoted in the Washington Post.

No. They're not.

Modern Firearms - Rifle - Mauser model 98

Modern Firearms - Rifle - Mauser model 98

Check it out! It is my... firearm!

I also bought 350 rounds for it. They're Turkish 7.91x57mm rounds, made in 1943. They came in bandoliers of 70. I've fired 15 of them so far and none of them exploded, though one did smell a lot like semi-burnt powder. I'm also going to a gun show this weekend, which should be fun. Hey, Liberals can own guns too.

For all your needs: http://www.cheaperthandirt.com Isn't it nice that military accesories are priced so reasonably?

Prom, 2002.