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READIN
READIN started out as a place for me
to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly)
how to design a web site.
There has been some mission drift
here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of
the main things I write about here are
reading books,
listening to (and playing) music, and
watching the movies. Also I write about the
work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.
The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.
See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.
🦋 Happy Valentine's Day
My two favorite love songs, for you:
posted morning of Monday, February 14th, 2011 ➳ More posts about Robyn Hitchcock ➳ More posts about Music
And thanks! to Ellen and Sylvia, for the lovely Valentine's present:
At Κενοδοξία, James Warren reprints the abstract of Anaximander's rejoinder (The Asia Minor Journal of Rational Natural Philosophy vol. ii, 580 bce) to Thales' doctrine that all things are "from water," in order to demonstrate what early Greek philoÂsophy was not like.
Geeta Doctor of the Mumbai Mirrorreviews Orhan Pamuk's latest: "It's a book about reading. That itself should make the unwary reader anxious, the alert one curious."