Book List 2022

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Here are the books I finished (possibly with some skimming) this year . . . I started plenty of others and quit them because . . . well beca...
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Bizarro Four

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Fantastic Four: Full Circle  is a psychedelic journey into a Bizarro World anti-matter negative energy universe, where some weird doppelgäng...
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The Essence?

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At a party last night, we played a game called "The Essence" -- but instead of "the Asker" asking questions like that, w...
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THAT Was Fun

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It's weird when your kid comes home from college for Winter Break-- there is certainly an adjustment period: they are used to a totally ...
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Charismatic Megafauna!

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  New episode of "We Defy Augury"  is up . . . thoughts loosely inspired by Steve Brusatte's book The Rise and Reign of the Ma...
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Almost Fun . . .

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Alex, Ian, and I went to the gym at 10 AM to play some basketball and we got a three-on-three game going but Alex and Ian were the tallest p...

Gold, Frankincense, and Bluetooth Hat

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Fun Christmas: I got the kids some graphic novels (that I want to read as well) and my wife got me a bluetooth ski hat with speakers embedde...

Xmas Eve Miracles!

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This morning, my older son Alex and I went to the Piscataway Y and played some basketball-- his game has gotten better because he's play...
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Winter Break is Here!

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Winter Break has arrived: we survived ChatGPTbotgate at school, I survived early morning basketball (and lit it up from outside . . . Merry ...
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Almost Break

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Alex is home from college and Alex, Ian, and I watched an episode of  Atlanta  and ate some pizza and told stories about college and high sc...

The Robots Are Here and the Writing is Uncanny

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We had a Rutgers grade calibration day and we found several essays that seem to have sections written by AI, probably ChatGPT . . . and this...

Early Morning Date with a Dead Dog

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You never know where the adventure of parenthood is going to take you . . . this morning I woke up my son Ian at 5:45 AM and we drove over t...
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Adrift in the Digital Doldrums

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New episode of We Defy Augury  is up and streaming: "Adrift in the Digital Doldrums" . . . in this one I describe how to become...

Meta Action is Still Action, Right?

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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent , starring Nicolas Cage as a gonzo-version of himself, is entertaining, fun, and meta . . .  and Ped...

Let There Be Lint

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I cleaned my dryer vent duct today, using a shop-vac and a kit that contained a bunch of flexible plastic sticks that you screw together and...
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Peanut Butter Hustle

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I was preparing to go to early morning basketball-- it was 5:30 AM-- and I had to walk the dog in the sideways rain (I've got a special ...
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At Least It Was Short

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Once again, I got sucked into another ridiculous Blake Crouch sci-fi thriller: this one is the first in a trilogy and it's called  Pines...

I Need To Try Chick-fil-A

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My Public Speaking students are giving informational speeches and I have learned I don't know anything: today I learned about Abby Lee M...
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Croatia: All Feet on Deck

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Croatia, with a population of 3.9 million, makes it to the finals of the World Cup in 2018 and the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2022 . . ...

Carrie Soto Is Wack

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On my podcast We Defy Augury , I usually try to convince you to read a particular book-- or at least to enjoy my thoughts on the book-- but...