| Actively Reading
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Introducing Ethics | David Robinson, et al
Socrates Cafe : A Fresh Taste of Philosophy | Christopher Phillips
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| On-deck
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Agile Software Development | Alistair Cockburn
The Hacker Ethic | Pekka Himanen, et al
Counter Hack | Ed Skoudis
Practical Unix and Internet Security | Spafford, Garfinkel
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The Career Programmer | Christopher Duncan
A Beautiful Mind | Sylvia Nasar
Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris
Euclid's Window | Leonard Mlodinow
Ava's Man | Rick Bragg
Affluenza | John DeGraaf, et al
sed & awk | Dougherty, Robbins
The Unix-hater's Handbook | Simson Garfinkel, et al
XML/RPC | Simon St. Laurent, et al
Core J2EE Patterns | John Krupi, et al
eXtreme Programming Explored | Wake
Software Craftsmanship | McBreen
XML-RPC | St. Laurent, et al
Mastering Regular Expressions | Friedl
Programming Ruby | Thomas, Hunt
Slack | DeMarco
Advanced JavaServer Pages | David Geary
Effective Java | Jeremy Bloch
Learning the vi Editor | Lamb, Robbins
The Secret House | David Bodanis
Unix Tricks and Tips | Kirk Waingrow
Learning the Korn Shell | Bill Rosenblatt
Geeks
| John Katz
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas
Adams
The
Cathedral and the Bazaar | Eric S. Raymond
Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein
Several Books on Solaris and Unix Admin
It's
Not About the Bike | Lance Armstrong
The
Humane Interface | Jef Raskin
The
Pragmatic Programmer | Andrew Hunt
The Water-method Man | John Irving
The
Nudist on the Late Shift | Po Bronson
Does the Center Hold?: An Introduction to Western
Philosophy | Donald Palmer
Principles of Transaction Processing | Philip
Bernstein
In the Beginning Was the Command Line | Neal
Stephenson
The Tomb | HP Lovecraft
The Lurking Fear | HP Lovecraft
Secrets, Lies, and Democracy | Chomsky/Barsamian
Hannibal | Thomas Harris
eXtreme Programming eXplained | Kent Beck
Philosophy for Dummies | Tom Morris
Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder
Clear Thinking | Hy Ruchlis
Chomsky for Beginners | David Cogswell
Philosophy, the Basics | Nigel Warburton
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Richard
Feynman
The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien
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| Listening
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Remain in Light | Talking Heads
Good Dog, Happy Man | Bill Frisell
Revival | Gillian Welch
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Monday, June 25, 2001
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Did a 40-miler in the foothills with Brian and the Denver Bicyle Touring Club. We actually didn't see much of the club, since our average riding speed was faster than that of most of the club members. We went out Deer Creek Canyon Road to "High Grade" road (means "steep", not "good quality"), and on up into Conifer. Brian and I took a shortcut to return, via 73 and Turkey Creek Road. The ride involved a total of around 2500-3000ft. of climbing (most of it on the front-end), and I was pretty tired by the time we finished.
I guess I should mention that the rest of the DBTC went on to Evergreen, which made for a much longer ride for them.
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Friday, June 22, 2001
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Great hacker's site.
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I've had my Trek 5200 for 26 days now. It has 400 miles as of this morning when I got to work. Lessee, that's an average of 18 miles per day. Pretty good, I think. Given my average-average speed of around 17mph or so, that's about 23.5 hours of riding. Based on the Cycling FAQ I'd burn about 883 calories per hour of riding, for a grand total of 20,750 calories burned on my new bike, which represents nearly six pounds of fat.
Now, why haven't I lost six pounds?
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Sunday, June 10, 2001
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Great, but punishing ride today: Squaw and Juniper pass. Stats:
Distance: 30 miles round trip
Altitude Gain: 3,500 ft.
Avg Grade: 4.4%
Avg Speed: 12.2mph (geez)
Time on Ride: about 2:30, 2 hrs climbing, and 30 minutes descending.
Top Speed: 43mph
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