Somehow it's February already and this is kind of a new year thing...

My review (also posted on Goodreads) of Ernest Cline's follow-up to Ready Player One, Armada.

started the semester. taking the statistical computing class. essentially: learn C, do statistics in C, interface C with R.

I don't get it.  Help me HuSi!

I like my new android phone.

it's pretty cool

but enough about my phone

I am making a slight purge of books on my shelves. I got rid of a lot when we got married and moved, but I still have some that can go.

Apparently I title these diaries "Wot I read in X" in even numbered years and as something else in odd. As this one is for 2011...

143 books read in 2011 according to my log, only one repeat (New Model Army by Adam Roberts) that I've spotted and no obvious gaps where I missed something. Mostly SF as ever with the usual trips through early mediaeval times with some text books, the Napoleonic era Royal Navy with Hornblower (which I've actually got in omnibus form so push the total up a bit) and slightly alternate Victorian times with Flashman. Ah, and Roman architecture thanks to the Channel 4 series Rome Wasn't Built In A Day which is well worth a watch.

On with the amazing page lengthening list, which if nothing else will remove the word "Boobies" from the top of the RSS feed...

I got into trouble early and missed my chance to get rid of the trouble. Then I lost. The end.

However, I finished off Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. It was quite good and did not have the characteristic flop of an ending, though. The annoying part now will be sorting back out which elements of the history were real and which forged. For instance, it drove out whatever real knowledge I had of Charles' CABAL. The only one I remember is George Villiers, the "B".

IT'S IN TRANSIT!

:)

:D

8D

Nothing too exciting.