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The main news is that I made a big mistake and I'm paying for it. I double-counted a class, thinking it could fulfill two requirements, but it didn't, so now I'm taking a summer school …

Oh, and I finished Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel a week ago or so. I'm glad I did so. It's quite enlightening and actually gives one a newish paradigm for history that makes sense …

Leonard loves the crankiness of Losing the Race by John McWhorter. I love the anecdotes. I'd be fine with a book that just contained the anecdotes from all of McWhorter's other books, and lectures, if …

You know what I love about Leonard? Among other things, he writes sentences that I'm pretty sure have never been written or said before. McWhorter used "Admit it, my friends -- the woman hasn't even …

Skimmed Neal Stephenson's The Big U last night. Stephenson didn't rerelease it for a long time, arguing that he didn't want people to read his inferior early work instead of reading worthwhile fiction by other …

Got two graduation gifts today, which were, as all of them will be, unexpected. I can't believe I'm graduating, and therefore can't quite believe that I should get gifts for anything. Jeana gave me Two …

I'm now halfway through Crime and Punishment and almost halfway through Microserfs. I heard part of an Eminem song on the radio today -- "Without Me," I think -- and quite liked it. Am I …

I like listening to choral music, especially faster-moving and non-religious stuff. I've known for a long time that I like a cappella of the doo-wop and arrangement-of-pop-tunes varieties, but I also like a bit of …

Reading In Code by Sarah Flannery. Amateurish and annoying with too many puzzles. But I'll finish it. Even though she, at 16, made a much more efficient algorithm than the RSA's or whatever, at least …

I finished Twain's The Innocents Abroad last week. Now I've finished Terry Pratchett's Small Gods (I started it Sunday evening) and begun a Philip K. Dick anthology. The Pratchett and Dick I received as gifts …