Archive for September, 2011
Bob Dylan
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Music, YouTube on 2011/09/30
I’ve been on a pretty big Dylan kick lately, listening to him in the car, at home and at work. Mostly it’s been the Dylan album, but recently it’s transitioned to The Essential Bob Dylan. Great collections, amazing music that reaches across the decades, that still has a powerful impact on us. Either of these two albums would be part of my Deserted Island picks for music. (The choice of books would probably come down to “Cryptonomicon”, “Replay” and “Look to Windward”.)
Tower of London
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Art, Pictures, Random Thoughts on 2011/09/27
“But sometimes, no matter how carefully you plan your playlist, there is no right track for what awaits you.”
“Father and baby at Washington Square Park”
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Mobile Post on 2011/09/27
Shaky camerawork, but beautiful nonetheless.
Mini-review: “Spin”, “Axis” and Robert Charles Wilson
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi on 2011/09/26
A fairly-simple “review” of the first two books in the “Spin” series, “Spin” and “Axis”, by Robert Charles Wilson.
Here be spoilers.
Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey Whiskey
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Reviews on 2011/09/26
This beautiful drink is actually quite horrible. I tried a sample size of this whiskey on Wednesday. Then bought a full bottle on Thursday. And was stunned to see on Monday that I’d gone through half of it.
Rather, I should have said, the drink is so good, it’s terrible.
Served chilled – or, in my case, straight from the freezer – this drink does a number on you. It’s sweet, but obviously packs a punch. Don’t mix it with anything. Don’t water it down. Drink it straight. And take an aspirin in the morning.
Book review: “Look to Windward”
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi on 2011/09/23
“Look to Windward” (LW for short), is the sixth Culture novel from author Iain M. Banks. It was published in 2000.
The following review will contain some spoilers.
In a nutshell…
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Blog, Travel, Work on 2011/09/23
The past few months in a nutshell (and, of course, in a bullet-list):
- The mess with the smoked-in condo was resolved, eventually
- In late February and early March I interviewed at Google and Amazon
- One rejection, one acceptance
- Got a promotion and a raise at Microsoft
- Whoo! SDE2!
- Was soon-after unceremoniously escorted from my office at Microsoft
- Was unemployed for three weeks
- Went on a three week road-trip through the south-west
- Saw
- Beautiful Pacific from US 101
- Grand Canyon
- Death Valley
- Route 66 (traveled along it for a few days)
- Two snow-storms in California (on the same day)
- “Love” in Las Vegas
- A bit more of San Francisco
- Russian Hill
- The Hoover Dam
- More of Portland
- My college room-mate and his wife
- Gas at 5.62$ a gallon (“supreme”)
- Shasta Dam (again)
- Got sick (as usual)
- Took ~1,000 photos and so far developed 9 of them
- Had my car broken into
- Saw
- On April 1st, started new job at Amazon, working on the .NET AWS SDK
- On April 29th, got my first paycheck and bought a used Porsche Boxster from a PM on the Kindle team
- Learning to drive manual transmission
- Enjoying new job
- Went to Leavenworth twice over the summer
- Reached 206 distinct beers at the TapHouse
- Upgraded from 27″ TV to a projector and a 100″ screen
- Trying to lure former coworkers away from Microsoft to Amazon
- Took a train to attend a friend’s wedding in California
- Fell in love with Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey
- Polished off a fair amount of sci-fi (on which I hope to post a few reviews)
- [Space intentionally left blank in case I recall something and decide to add
it later]
Less said, the better
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Blog, Pictures on 2011/09/23
It’s been forever and a day since I’ve written on this blog. It’s been forever since I’ve wanted to. The last few months have seen a fair bit of change in my life. Some things got pushed way down on the priority queue. But, here we are again. Hopefully back from an unintended hiatus.
And now, without further ado…
