Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is." 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
Douglas Adams

The Dog Stars
Peter Heller

Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker
Ed Piskor

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace

The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)
Robert Jordan

The foundation for an open source city
Jason Hibbets

The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2)
Robert Jordan

White Noise
Don DeLillo

The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
Robert Jordan

White Teeth
Zadie Smith

In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust
Marcel Proust
Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, C.K. Scott Moncrieff

Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
Harry S. Jaffe
Tom Sherwood
An excellent political history of DC, foundation through 1994. Must read for anyone in the District who isn't Marion Barry himself.

The Pale King
David Foster Wallace
Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles #3)
Frank Herbert

Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles #2)
Frank Herbert

The Prisoner and the Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time #5)
Marcel Proust
Carol Clark, Christopher Prendergast, Peter Collier

The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
Clay A. Johnson
Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar
O'Reilly Radar Team