'2025' Archives

January

• Books - 2024 (1/13/2025)

  Here's what I'd read in 2024. I did a stint of reading books Oscar owns. He recommended them to us. He also has OBOB coming up soon, so I have read some of those to have things to talk to him about. I really got stuck on reading for myself at the end of the year. I have picked up "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. I have had a hard time getting through it. It's my second attempt. Wish me luck!

  1. Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
  2. The Invention Of Murder - Judith Flanders
  3. Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
  4. Racing The Beam: The Atari Video Computer System - Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost
  5. Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon
  6. Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps - Empires of Time - Peter Galison
  7. Trouble Boys - The True Story Of The Replacements - Bob Mehr
  8. Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O’Nan
  9. California - Edan Lepucki
  10. Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult - Maria Bamford
  11. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stenger
  12. Remain In Love - Talking Heads • Tom Tom Club • Tina - Chris Frantz
  13. Dune - Frank Herbert
  14. Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles
  15. Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
  16. Legends of Lotus Island - The Guardian Test - Christina Soontornvat
  17. Legends of Lotus Island - Into The Shadow Mist - Christina Soontornvat
  18. Legends of Lotus Island - City Of Wishes - Christina Soontornvat
  19. Legends of Lotus Island - Temple Of Secrets - Christina Soontornvat
  20. The Wild Robot - Peter Brown
  21. Leonard (My Life As A Cat) - Carlie Sorosiak
  22. Marshmallow & Jordan - Alina Chau
  23. The Wild Robot Escapes - Peter Brown
  24. A Time Traveler’s Theory of Relativity - Nicole Valentine

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• David Lynch (1/16/2025)

  David Lynch has died. I remember watching "Blue Velvet" on VHS at someone's house in high school; probably in 1987. Many of Dennis Hopper's lines became catch phrases for my friends then. "Twin Peaks" was on TV once I was away at college. I remember gathering with friends to watch it and then talking about it all the time. I saw his other films over the years, but "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks" have stuck with me the longest.

  During my first stint at Apple, the java team would gather during lunchtimes to re-watch "Twin Peaks" on VHS in our break area. We'd sit on these very "Apple in the late 1990s" soft seats, watching a big CRT TV with VHS on a rolling cart. Somehow the Apple folks I worked with (who had been at Apple since the System 7 days) had this A/V cart on permanent loan.

  Infinite Loop also had cable wired throughout. I recall watching some of the 9/11 coverage from work that day, since I still had decided to go to work via CalTrain. Sometime later in the morning, Steve Jobs sent out a company wide email saying no one had to work anymore that day. After that, the office was different. There weren't security guards everywhere when I'd started. From that day on, it (and everything) was different. #