Maybe if I try shorter posts about things I find and stuff, rather than trying to write an essay on everything, I’d get more posted. I’ve found tons of awesome stuff since my last post, but I usually am on to reading the next cool thing before I get around to posting! I’ve been so busy with life, too…I suppose that’s as good a reason as any to be absent from my blog, being the introvert I am.
Anyway, good post over at 43 Folders about an old book he found in his closet, with quotes! They’re all “Rules of Thumb“:http://www.43folders.com/2005/03/rules_of_thumb_.html and I like his favorites! I’m trying to hold myself back from reserving the books at the library, I have too many out already! I’m having to return them without reading them as people put them on hold.
Right now in fact I’m listening to the first audiobook I’ve listened to in years. I figured if I can’t read in the car (while driving to work), and I don’t feel like listening to music, why not listen to a book? Especially since I haven’t had time to listen to the myriad books that I just mentioned I have out from the library :-)
So, the book I’m listening to is “The Great Train Robbery“:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060502304/davidsworldva-20/002-2086300-3510456?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=2025&link%5Fcode=xm2 by Michael Crichton. It’s a true story and it’s very well told, at least from the first CD (the one I finished so far) of eight. Once I’m done, I think I’ll also watch the “DVD of the movie”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792839064/davidsworldva-20/002-2086300-3510456?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=2025&link%5Fcode=xm2 from the book, made in 1979 and starring Sean Connery. My friend Shawn recommended both the book and the movie, along with “Michael Crichton’s other books”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?search-type=ss&tag=davidsworldva-20&keyword=Michael%20Crichton&index=books, some of which I already have from the library. Many are also movies.
While doing some Googling about The Great Train Robbery, I found another interesting “movie by the same name, made in 1903”:http://www.filmsite.org/grea.html! It’s not my genre (silent western) but apparently it set a lot of moviemaking milestones, according to the review at the link. They also released a 100th anniversary DVD version, it’s “at Amazon”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000WN1JA/davidsworldva-20/002-2086300-3510456?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=2025&link%5Fcode=xm2 in case you’re more interested than I.
Haven’t gotten around to those pictures of my new car yet, but they’re coming eventually.
On a quick unrelated note, domain names ending in .us are apparently losing the ability to be registered privately through a proxy service such as the Private Registrations that “GoDaddy”:http://www.godaddy.com/ provides. GoDaddy’s owner provides a very good discussion of this “on his blog”:http://bobparsons.com/index.php?/archives/36-Domain-owners-lose-privacy.-Nine-ways-we-are-now-more-vulnerable..html. Good read.
I did mention I was trying to make these posts shorter, right? :-)