Feeling: sleepyRemember your high school computer theory class? References to the “ancient” (in computer innovation time) machines which utilized vacuum tubes, drum memories, ferrite rings? Remember ENIAC, UNIVAC, EDVAC etc? If these terms bring back nostalgic memories of your high school computer course and the thoughts imagining what these machines looked like, then Core Memory is [...]
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Book Review: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers
August 1st, 2008 4 Comments
Tags: book · Computers · core memory · edvac · eniac · history · imac · pc · photographs · Photography · Review · univac · vacuum tube · z3
Book Review: A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren
July 25th, 2008 6 Comments
I have secrets. So do you and everyone else. We keep secrets out of embarrassment, fear of hurting others or importantly hurting ourselves. But a lot of times we keep secrets because we just do not know how to express our feelings – elation, hurt, sadness, love. The liberating effect of letting a secret out [...]
Tags: a lifetime of secrets · amazing · book · frank warren · post card · postsecret · Project · Review · secret
Book Review: Crecent Garden
February 20th, 2008 Comments Off
Crescent Garden is written by Christopher Love and is the first book published by Evermore Books. As the tag line says, “A novel of New Orleans, the book is set entirely in New Orleans. Love creates a very tightly written book with the story taking place over 3 days just before Mardi Gras in New [...]
Tags: book · christopher-love · crecent-garden · mystery_novels · novel · Review
Pedantic
July 18th, 2007 5 Comments
Feeling: amused Listening to: Pink Floyd – Wish You Were HereI’ve just started reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves. It’s a book about the incorrect usage of punctuation in the written language today and the misinterpretation the incorrect punctuation might cause. I’ve only completed it partly but it seems quite interesting except for the failing attempts of the author [...]
Tags: book · eats-shoots-and-leaves · grammar · grammar-nazi · language · punctuation · reading
How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a life – A Review
May 15th, 2006 2 Comments
Feeling: sleepy Listening to: Eminem – Big WeenieAnd how Kavya Viswanathan got busted and got dissed (lol could not resist that ) Oh well, when I’d first seen the book, just as it was released, I thought it seemed like a pretty neat book. I mean a good idea, probably well written and a good storyline. But I [...]
Tags: book · indians · Kavya-Viswanathan · Opal-Mehta · plagiarism · Review · scandal
V for Vendetta
April 1st, 2006 7 Comments
Watched V for Vendetta, the movie, today. Excellent movie. Very well filmed and directed but most of all, it sticks religiously to the original Comic Book by the same name and written by the Great Comic Book Writer Alan Moore. Yes some parts have been changed for requirements of commercialization of the movie but it [...]
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