By Robert Ellison. Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
5/5
Took a while to start because The Secret History is one of my favorite books and I was pretty disappointed by The Little Friend - I can't really even remember it. The Goldfinch on the other hand will stick with me for a long time. It's a book where you inhabit someone else's life so deeply that it's disorienting to finish. Outstanding.
If you only buy one house in Bernal Heights this month it should be 94 Elsie Street on the west slope of the hill (I'm not biased, just happened to have lived there for nearly ten years!)
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Commute failing to suck this morning... #photo#presidio Photo of Andy Goldsworthy's wood line in the Presidio of San Francisco, California.)
Did you know that Windows still has a vestigial finger command with just about nothing left to talk to? One of my New Year's resolutions is to bring finger back and unlike the stalled webfinger project I need to make some progress. Here's some C# to run your own personal finger daemon... you just need to create a .plan file in your home directory (haven't done that for a while):
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Personal Finger Daemon for Windows #code#random#finger#fingerd An impractical attempt to bring finger back (the awesome UNIX utility for pinging a person, so much better than Facebook!))
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017.
Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars by Lee Billings
4/5
Epic book about the origins, frequency and long term outlook of life in the universe.
Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2) by Ben H. Winters
4/5
A search for a missing person is the backdrop for watching society start to collapse and the plot begin to thicken in the sequel to The Last Policeman. Here's hoping that the third book will be worth the wait.