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  • 25 Albums

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    This meme is naming 25 albums that had a profound effect on you, the ones you listened to again and again, and have worn out copies in a number of formats. Being a big fan of music, lists and contemplating my own naval, here’s mine, in rough chronological order of when I became obsessed with…

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  • Move over, Hal

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    How to make hard drives even sexier than they already are.

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  • Read: Flesh and Blood – Michael Cunningham

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    American family from immigrant background live an increasingly desperate life. Cunningham has an extremely skillful turn of phase, and despite several hard twists and turns in his story (there’s several ‘oh shit‘ moments), the characters’ path seems grimly inevitable. Thoroughly enjoyable. Link

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  • Soppy Beatles Saturday

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  • Read: To Have And Have Not – Ernest Hemmingway

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    Wikipedia says Hemmingway reckoned To Have And Have Not is ‘a bunch of junk’. I reckon he’s right. It’s a mish-mash of a couple of short stories.  One’s about Harry Morgan, a hard on his luck fishing boat captain forced to take increasingly desperate measures to feed his family. The other’s about a bunch of…

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  • Read: Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck

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    I’m doing a quick, one paragraph review of novels I read this year – so I’ve got a record, apart from anything else. Like a roller coaster, the first bit was a bit flat, but when it started picking up speed… I haven’t had a *physical* reaction to a novel like this in a long…

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  • Quote

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    From an interview with Derek Powazek (who designed the WordPress theme for this site): In many ways, I’m a member of the generation of writers that the web has created. Without the web, I’m not sure I would have ever written what I’ve written, or told the stories I’ve told. This is true.

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  • Carbohydrate update

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    I grew these potatoes using Llew’s method: The red ones grew better than the brown-skinned ones. And I baked this bread using me Dad’s back of the envelope recipe:

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  • Facebook interesting-ness

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    Burn friends – get a Whopper! Here’s the app.

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  • Fav reads of 2008

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    I read embarrasingly little that was *new* in 2008. But I did get lots read – thanks, bus commuting and baby-enforced early nights. My best were: – East of Eden, with a surprising amount of sex and violence for a book written in 1952 and set at the turn of last century. – In Cold…

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