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Twentieth Century (50 titles) 1900-1945 (28 titles): Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent F. Scott Fitzgerald...

Pre-twentieth century Before 1800 (13 titles): Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Cressida Thomas Malory: Le Morte D'arthur Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene John Milton: Paradise Lost Alexander Pope: The Dunciad Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders Samuel Richardson: Clarissa Lawrence Sterne: T...

Estel threatened, but I'm beating her to it. :D Facebook has a meme bouncing around with a list of 100 books, which may or may not have been slapped together by the BBC, out of which they say most have read at best six. The list is, shall we say, somewhere between eclectic and pointless. It's neithe...

I think the numbers required for the different pictures should change without notice and with no discernible pattern. Just to mess with people.

Theatrical or Director's Cut?

Depends on the class. Figure drawing? S'ok.

Estel--



I admire those who do things I couldn't.

Estel-

I know what you mean--sometimes I'm bookish and sometimes not.

Right now I'm back to revising the novel before the one I did at the end of last year, which is enough to put one off books forever.

BTW--Laura found the shoes.

I'm still looking forward to it. Got a late start on WOTLK--I took time off of WOW in Nov/Dec to write a novel.

Arnold Kling of the Cato Institute would agree with you, I'm sure.

Hey, Mr. Wolfgangbos, is your lock a tailor? If so, did you know about the Loremaster of Northrend achievment's little perk?

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The analytical was kind of fun, actually.

It was the BOMB. I loved it. It was like a 45 minute logic puzzle book.

Popularity doesn't mean truth. If it did, we would have passed laws rounding pi to 3 by now. The economists I respect universally say tax cuts simply don't create jobs as effectively as spending does in these circumstances. Job creation is the sine qua non for me right now. I would have preferred fe...

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John has blue eyes. Max prefers red shirts. Where does Jane work?

For ETS, obviously.

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Banks selling junk mortgages pressured rating agencies to overvalue the instruments, and since they were the ones paying the fees, the agencies complied.

It's usually a bad idea, honesty-wise, to have the people evaluating your performance dependent on you for their paychecks.

It's very simple. As long as real estate values continued to expand with the bubble, there weren't any problems, because no one was upside down. No one was defaulting. Moreover, the faster a loan got processed, the faster the original lender could sell it off and make money up front from it. The peo...

Actually, most of St. Louis proper is OK flood-wise: it's the surrounding suburbs that got slapped on serious flood plains that irk me. The Chesterfield Valley, west of town, was underwater for a month in 1993. What they do in response? Build the World's Biggest Frikin' Strip Mall there and raise th...

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Way too sweet and way too fatty

I'm sorry, but that just doesn't make any sense.

Dreams from my Father is a good read, and not overtly political. It's the story of a man with a very strained, strange childhood who managed, with the help of some strong family members, to pull himself together to become a remarkable human being. I enjoy reading the memoirs of the self-aware. It w...

Carbonated beverages are acidic but not very concentrated: low pH, low molarity. That's why you have to leave the penny in overnight.

Your stomach produces much more concentrated acid, which is one reason you should always at least try to brush your teeth after you barf.