From the category archives:
It’s been a busy summer so far, so let me update you on a few things:
I moved. For the past year Emily and I were living in a townhouse. It was quite lovely. The whole townhouse complex was populated by other grad students and young professionals – a nice change from undergrads peeing off the balcony above your front door.
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I knew little about Oppenheimer before reading this book. Known as “the father of the bomb” for his role as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory which created the first atomic bomb, Oppenheimer was a fascinating individual and regarded as such by virtually everyone who knew him – scientists, generals, and politicians among them.
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I’m currently reading Hilter’s Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil’s Pact by John Cornwell. The book tackles extremely important issues regarding the role of scientists within a society and their political and moral obligations. I found myself thinking that the introduction alone would have made a fantastic reading assignment in my undergraduate engineering ethics courses.
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That’s about all I can say in Spanish.
Last weekend’s trip to the Dominican Republic was great fun, despite Hurricane Dean’s feeble efforts to rain on my parade. I was visiting my friend Matt who is finishing up his two-year stint with the Peace Corps, but our friend Hamilton was also there visiting Matt so it [...]
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This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.