LITerature
Table of Contents
1 introduction
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2 reading
3 now
3.1 On Liberty
- The Project Gutenberg eBook of On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill. – September 21, 2014 at 07:50AM see [pg 8]
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3.2 The Liberal Hour
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4 have read
4.1 Colin Dexter, the first three Morss novel dexter morse
4.2 Mad Like Tesla mitbc
Whats the story on EEstore? Starting with Tyler Hamilton Or on Wikipedia – EEstor
Its likely first application, the ZENN car
- Metrics for all chapters
Energy Solutions
metric value sector generation, transmission, storage level exclusive, moderate, incidental scale portable, garage, acre, ocean, space technology available, developing, breakthru material rare earth, nuclear, geo, … when term, generation, century money M, B, Q(usetion) name … e.g. EEstor's solution would be s, e, p, b, r, g, M, EEstor
a solution in mutliple sectors might be "ts, mm" for "transmission, storage; moderate, moderate"
While reading on Jan 28, 2017, in the Silent World of Nicholas Quinn where Morse has "all the suspects gathered, and everything was going according to plan" caught my attention. I had to chuckle. It's like Dexter was poking his nose thru the fourth wall of the stage, having fun with his readers. "Of course it's going according to plan, and in this case it's the author's plan, and Morse is falling in line."
4.3 Hidden Figures
- Description
- read alikes
- Soul of A New Machine – Kidder
- The Architecure Machine – Negroponte
- What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable – edited, Gelernter
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology – Kurzweil
- Social Life of Documents – '96, a PDF, view technolgy displacement predicitions with caution.
5 to read
5.1 from Dave Astor's blog
a post from JJ McGrath:
- Richard Adams (1920-2016), “Watership Down.”
- Edward Albee (1928-2016), “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
- William Peter Blatty (1928-2017), “The Exorcist.”
- David Bowie (1947-2016), “Space Oddity.”
- Jimmy Breslin (1928-2017), “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.”
- Nat Hentoff (1925-2017), “The Nat Hentoff Reader.”
- Richard Matheson (1926-2013), “I Am Legend.”
- George Michael (1963-2016), “Careless Whisper” (co-written by Andrew Ridgeley).
- Farley Mowat (1921-2014), “Never Cry Wolf.”
- Prince (1958-2016), “When Doves Cry.”
- Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), “The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984.”
- Mark Strand (1934-2014), “Selected Poems.”
- Alvin Toffler (1928-2016), “Future Shock.”
- Gore Vidal (1925-2012), “Visit to a Small Planet.”
- C.K. Williams (1936-2015), “With Ignorance.”
first cut: Adams, Albee, Breslin, Hentoff, Toffler, Vidal. decidedly male
5.2 Singles
- Big Science, in Chapter 2: "South Daktota Boy", in its first paragraph: "Canton South Dakota was a thriving agricultural town of two thousand residents located near the sourwester wedge of the state, where it met Iowa and Nebraska…" Except it's the southeastern wedge of South Dakota which meets Iowa and Nebraska.
- Typical of Hidden Figures, in Glass Universe, on p. 124, "to make room for Mrs Fleming's mother, brother, and two nephews, Miss Cannon invited her widowed older half sister… to come live with her in Cambridge".
- Machines of Loving Grace, Markka
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Mathew Desmond
6 tools
6.2 bit.ly
- Alpine Messaging System-- – September 20, 2014 at 01:39PM
- applemcg's books | LibraryThing – March 14, 2015 at 10:58AM
- MIT - Active – March 19, 2015 at 03:05PM
- applemcg's books | LibraryThing – March 14, 2015 at 12:24PM
- Bible Companion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – January 03, 2015 at 09:04AM
- 'Da Vinci's Ghost' Lives On In The Vitruvian Man : NPR – January 20, 2015 at 12:40PM vitruvian
- God´s Word - Job 41,42 – January 03, 2015 at 09:04AM
- Google Groups – January 08, 2015 at 08:24PM
- InfoQ – minibook guidelines then search for Facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in enterprise software development
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson | 9781476708690 | Hardcover | Barnes & Noble – October 31, 2014 at 06:09PM
- Katie + Justin Sneak Peek – October 21, 2014 at 06:01PM
- Memorial to Mark Harris. – October 25, 2014 at 02:21PM
- Obama Faulted in Terror Fight, New Poll Finds - NYTimes.com – September 21, 2014 at 07:56AM
- Our Registry — McGowan-Hoffman Wedding – September 20, 2014 at 10:58AM
- Socially speaking | it's important to me – January 23, 2015 at 08:38PM
- Technology Review Alumni - November/December 2014 - Front Cover – October 22, 2014 at 07:59PM
- TNLplanet – September 30, 2014 at 09:02AM
7 the canon
from the NYT Book Review 8/21/15
7.1 in
according to Francine Prose:
- Bible
- Odyssey
- Illiad
- Sophocles
- Chaucer
- Shakespeare
- Davied Copperfield
- MIddlemarch
- Wuthering Heights
- Virginia Wolfe, essays
- Katherine Mansfield ?
- James Bladwin
- Coeridge, – fm Parker
7.2 out
according to James Parker
- Wordsworth