No, in fact, quite the opposite, though I have never had caviar. As far as I can tell, the only impulse associated with Grape Nuts is
As a child, I would stay over at a friends house some times. They didn't have a big variety of breakfast cereals. One day I decided to try Grape Nuts. They looked so delicious. I poured a huge bowl of them. I poured the milk. I took a few bites, and knew I was in trouble. They tasted terrible. How could I ever even half-way finish this bowl of trouble?
-------------- Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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-------------- Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Yes! I loved Winter Brothers. It's fun learning about local history. Now every time I sit on the beach up at Neah Bay, all I can think of is heads on stakes!
-------------- If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
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-------------- If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
'Lost in a Good Book' - Jasper Fforde ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde )
.... one of the 'Thursday Next' series. Sort of a comedy/literary/alternate history where characters from famous novels slip into the 'real world' and literary enforcer Thursday Next tries to catch them and return them to their proper places. Hilarious!
It's a book for a graduate class I'm taking at UW. The book is basically all about labor protests in China. She makes a distinction between the type of protest that occurs in the south (Guangdong) where there are mostly younger workers in export-oriented factories, and in the northeast (Liaoyang) where there are mostly older, laid-off employees who worked for some of China's now-defunct state owned enterprises.
AND
"LSAT for Dummies" !
I'm too lazy to go find out by whom that is written.
-------------- All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other -
Only the mountain and I. ~Li Po~
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-------------- All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other -
Only the mountain and I. ~Li Po~
Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
He explains special relativity such that I can finally understand it. At least immediately after reading it.
If you enjoyed that, I suggest you check out some of John Gribbin's "In Search of..." series. He does a very good job of taking very, very complicated ideas and theorys and making them understandable. My favorites of his so far have been
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, where he examines quantum physics,
In Search of the Big Bang, where he looks at cosmology (and, of course, some more quantum physics), and
In Search of the Double Helix, about genetics, and the discovery of DNA and it's role in inheritance.
I'm currently about half-way through his Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity, though I got distracted, and it seems to have become my "read on the plane" book.
Currently, I'm re-reading Tom Clancy's Patriot Games, alongside a re-read of Wrox Press' Beginning Visual C++ 5.
Just finished Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. I started with his The Big U, and couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about him. Snow Crash made it more clear, good book.
My favorite recent read was China Mievelle's Perdido Street Station, one of the best and most beautifully realized fictional worlds in a long, long time. I need to pick up some more from him.
I am making myself finish "Men, Mountains and Mules...Lieutenant O'Neil's Olympic Expeditions."
I started it a few years ago and got really bored right from the start. It's kind of wordy and convulted....made me feel like I was an overloaded mule trying to climb Olympus just to read it. I told myself I would pick it up again after I'd hiked the NF Skok...and maybe it would be more interesting.
NOT!!! But I am almost done (on the last chapter.) Thank Goodness.
-------------- .....leaving me wanting to return over and over in what ever capacity that may be, even if one day my knees are too old and I can only see the mountains from my porch.
Jason Hummel
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-------------- .....leaving me wanting to return over and over in what ever capacity that may be, even if one day my knees are too old and I can only see the mountains from my porch.
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Awesome, like most of his stuff.
