habitually probing generalist

In my recent Books Read in 2009 post I talked a bit about what I read last yea and a few other aspects of reading. In this post I want to touch on a few other issues, some of which are orthogonal ways of looking at what I read last year; so partially an update, [...]

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Not sure what any of this means, or why, it is, or if, of importance. Much can be seen of my book reading habits over the last 3 years at this blog [see links at end of post]. According to previous posts, it looks like another banner year in the Lindner household for book reading. [...]

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when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can see your soul
out of sight,
your deep dark secrets
ebb and flow like the tide
but all that i see
are infinite spectrums of possibility
when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can reach your soul
i love the infinite distances
that exist between us.
with persistence, our reach
will [...]

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Recently I began reading ebooks. Before I address which books specifically and related issues let me put a few things on the table.
Preliminaries:
This post is about my experiences in the recent present and not about the future of what will or might be (even if I comment on that).
I have read quite a fair number [...]

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For assorted reasons my book reading greatly increased this past year. Based on that I split this list into two, posting the 1st half (or so) on 11 August in a post titled Books read in 1st half of 2008 (and some).
In the earlier post, I reported reading 26 books and re-reading 3 books. This [...]

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I have remarked here before about how little poetry I have read in my life.  Most of it has been in the last few years, and most of that in the last year.
I wrote a couple of poems when I was an adolescent and/or teenager—when I use the word “poem” to refer to my own [...]

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Sunday – Friday, 13 – 18 Apr 2008

2007. Running & Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind. Malden: Blackwell Pub.

Ch. 6 : Running Religiously by Jeffrey P. Fry (Sun)
Ch. 7 : Hash Runners and Hellenistic Philosophers by Richard DeWitt (Mon)
Ch. 8 : A Runner’s Pain (Mon)
Ch. 9 : What Motivates an Early Morning Runner? [...]

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Saturday – Sunday, 22 – 23 Mar 2008
Mann, T. (2008). “On the Record” but Off the Track” a review of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on The Future of Bibliographic Control, with a further examination of Library of Congress cataloging tendencies. , 38. Washington, DC: AFSCME 2910. Retrieved from http://www.guild2910.org/WorkingGrpResponse2008.pdf.
Sunday, 23 [...]

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All week
DeLillo, D. (1986). White noise, Contemporary American fiction., 326. New York: Penguin Books.
 

I didn’t say it. The computer did. The whole system says it. It’s what we call a massive data-base tally. Gladney, J. A. K. I punch in the name, the substance, the exposure time and then I tap into your computer history. [...]

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Sunday, 9 Mar 2008
Smith, L. C. (1981). ‘Memex’ as an image of potentiality in information retrieval research and development In , Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 345-369). Cambridge, England: Butterworth & Co.
Linda cited this article when talking about her research on a panel discussion we [...]

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