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Tentative reading list for the rest of the year:

Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Augustine's Laws, Sixth Edition
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
The Opium of the Intellectuals
Relativity Visualized
Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405...
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Hey, life! Fuck you. I tire of this incessant sine wave; pick a frequency, and stick with.
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Missed yet another rocket launch from Vandenberg.

This post is almost a week late.

Upshot: JPL soon. Hooray! At least, here's to hoping. And no, that has nothing to do with employment. One can hope and dream, though.

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Devin Townsend at the House of Blues in West Hollywood tonight. It's going to be more awesome than owning your very own magic carpet and Decanter of Endless Whiskey.
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Tonight: Gdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, some Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, and Taneda Santoka's deliciously simple haiku, with a spattering of GIS coding, playtesting Fluxx, stir-fry, whiskey, and Stone IPA.