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Jul. 15th, 2013 12:14 pmCrazy weekend--D's uncle, a retired professor of Old Testament theology, who can best be described as Faulknerian, passed away, so we spent multiple days dealing with that.
Also, I am about to kick off a doc sprint with a team located primarily in India, so we're looking at meetings all week at 10 pm my time. Good thoughts appreciated!
I saw this float by & thought it looked like fun--because books are always fun, right?
1. Favourite childhood book?
The Wizard of Oz -- I can still remember the morning when I realized I'd read hundreds of pages (I think I was in 2nd grade) and then being overjoyed that there were more books about Oz. (L. Frank Baum wrote 14 books and a wonderful, wonderful children's librarian got me almost all of them that year. Last year, someone put them all together in one omnibus Kindle edition with TOC that goes across them all--I almost sprained my wrist getting it, I was moving so fast.)
The books that I have hunted down for my kids (and re-read along with them) include The Twenty-One Balloons (William Pene duBois) and The Mad Scientists Club (Brinley/Greer). (They sort of explain the engineering and steampunk, don't they?) Looking back now, Gone-Away Lake and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler were both giant influences. And I can't not mention Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden, because a geek's got to have her intrepid girl-detective role models, right?
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Also, I am about to kick off a doc sprint with a team located primarily in India, so we're looking at meetings all week at 10 pm my time. Good thoughts appreciated!
I saw this float by & thought it looked like fun--because books are always fun, right?
1. Favourite childhood book?
The Wizard of Oz -- I can still remember the morning when I realized I'd read hundreds of pages (I think I was in 2nd grade) and then being overjoyed that there were more books about Oz. (L. Frank Baum wrote 14 books and a wonderful, wonderful children's librarian got me almost all of them that year. Last year, someone put them all together in one omnibus Kindle edition with TOC that goes across them all--I almost sprained my wrist getting it, I was moving so fast.)
The books that I have hunted down for my kids (and re-read along with them) include The Twenty-One Balloons (William Pene duBois) and The Mad Scientists Club (Brinley/Greer). (They sort of explain the engineering and steampunk, don't they?) Looking back now, Gone-Away Lake and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler were both giant influences. And I can't not mention Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden, because a geek's got to have her intrepid girl-detective role models, right?
( more, more, more under the cut )
