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Book Update

**Recently read** – A World Without Email by Cal Newport – Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer – Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro **Currently Reading** – The Every by Dave Eggers – Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport – Two Old Men and a Baby by Hendrik Groen – The Remains of the Day […]

Must Read and Must Watch

Hey folks, Long time no post. Must Read I’ve told a lot of people this in person, and in emails, but the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson is a must read. One of the benefits of working in a school is getting amazing book recommendations from my colleagues. I also had the great opportunity […]

Best of 2010

Well, 2010, it was nice to know you. Here’s some of my favorite books, movies, and music from the past year:   Music It was an all time low for me this year in terms of listening to new music. I think the combination of a lack of money and more important things keeping me […]

anytime, anywhere

“Our vision is every book, ever printed, in any language , all available in less than 60 seconds.” -Jeff Bezos Wrap your mind around that for a second…

Whittling down the reading pile…

My stack of books keeps growing. Like my Netflix queue, but with more taunt. (As the pile of books sits, physically, by my bedside, whereas the Netflix queue is a bit more ethereal.) I just finished reading Feed by M.T. Anderson. It’s in the pile of books known as “work books”, aka books tangentially related to […]

Awesome

Where the Wild Things Are, based on Maurice Sendak’s classic picture book, is slated for major motion picture release in mid-2009. via Wild Things All Over – 2/4/2008 – Publishers Weekly. and… the film will carry a blockbuster of a tie-in—and it’s not the book the film is based on: it is a solo novel, […]

reading and the internet

northern wisconsin provides excellent opportunities for unplugging from the internet, resting and relaxing. even though, the internet is only a few houses away. high speed internet is spreading it’s tentacles wide and far, so that even outside of minocqua, wisconsin, on a small lake, high speed is available. i drove from my parent’s cabin to […]