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."
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
Douglas Adams
The Dog Stars
Peter Heller
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)
Robert Jordan
After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
A.N. Wilson
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
How to Hike the AT: The Nitty-Gritty Details of a Long-Distance Trek
Michelle Ray
Voices from the Farm: Adventures in Community Living
Rupert Fike