clock — watching time, the only true currency

Since I knew I would finish Calculating God on the flight, I bought Tom Clancy’s latest paperback, The Teeth of the Tiger. I think I’m caught up now with the Ryan novels, at least to date. This one, though, includes Jack Ryan, Jr., instead of his father. Guess it’s hard to do much with a [...]

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Flying back to San Francisco alone a week ago gave me plenty of reading time, so I finished off Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer. Thanks, Mom… I’ll definitely have to pick up some more Sawyer, since it’s clearly intelligent, approachable science fiction. And I appreciate an author forward thinking enough to use sfwriter.com as [...]

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Skip Codex by Lev Grossman. It was another silly vacation read maybe a fortnight ago.
Young investment banker looks for ancient book, assisted by slightly frantic graduate student, both of them caught up in some odd royal family power struggle. Even for a “beach read,” pretty dismal. I read it, so you don’t have to. It [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, while on vacation, I whipped through Angels & Demons, an earlier novel by Dan Brown, author of The DaVinci Code. This historical/religious/pulp thriller even pulls in the Illuminati. A quick summer read, but you can skip this one. Way back in high school, I think, I read The Illuminatus Trilogy, [...]

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This post is for the many friends and colleagues who — unlike the rest of the country and the world — thought of me (however briefly) when the President announced his choice to replace Sandra Day O’Connor. Walking through Times Square on Friday night, I saw my name (yes, it’s my name, too) on one [...]

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The natural air conditioning of San Francisco welcomes me home… wonder how long it will be before I miss the warm evening and heat/humidity of New York City? Probably a while.
Much to catch up on, but not tonight.

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It will be quiet for a bit around here. Enjoying some time.

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I expect others have been keeping score on this topic, but I wonder how much longer print newspapers will continue to include stock tables? Yesterday, the flagship financial publication in the United States, the Wall Street Journal, announced “Changes Today in Our Financial Tables.” The changes?
The Wall Street Journal is streamlining its financial listings starting [...]

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A long, sunny holiday weekend was well misspent. No broadband connectivity, so no temptation to keep up with the online world. Because my current non-fiction read is lengthy, I took a one-day breather with The Da Vinci Code. Yes, I’m a bit late to this mega-best-selling party. The pages turned, and I got what I [...]

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I threw out a link on Wednesday evening, but the RSS promo from work late Thursday afternoon actually drew attention to the News.com tag cloud. Only found two links via Technorati. Several more came up via Feedster. Bloglines citations, too, did pretty well. Here’s the filtered, mixed list of those I could read in English:

Jim [...]

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