In The Body, Bryson does for human biology what he did for science in A Short History of Everything. In about 400 pages he attempts to provide a college 101 level understanding of pretty much everything you might want to know about your body. He mostly succeeds, although given the …
Earlier this week a long time Internet friend posted that she had found her old Hypermart site. Hypermart was "Geocities for businesses." I knew the three founders from my first Internet job. They started the site with one server and in less than a year (IIRC) they had sold it …
We got a head start on our planned 2020 tour of beachy areas we might move to in 2021 by spending a few days of Christmas break in Charleston SC - the first trip there for either of us. Won’t be the last trip there for sure, and Charleston has …
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or if you aren't celebrating anything in particular this week, happy Tuesday! BTW, this is blog post 54 for the year, so I averaged an update a week, and I didn't need a "post everyday in December" stunt this year to do it!
We aren't camping …
About 30 pages into this book, I had a brief thought that I didn’t care that the book won a Pulitzer, there was no way I was reading 400+ pages about surfing.
I finished the book. Surfing is the star of probably 90% of the pages in the book …
Set in 1969 and 1989, South of Broad is essentially a love letter to Charleston. It's a sweeping story of a set of unlikely friends that meet in high school in 1969 and are still friends in 1989, although given the asshole factor in some of these characters you certainly …