June/July reading

Today is Prickle-Prickle, day 68 in the season of Confusion, 3271.

I missed June's list of what I'd been reading, so I'll condense June and July into this one post. Not really any commentary right this second because I mostly want to get this written down before I go crawl into bed or else I'll forget to do it for yet another month.

• Fleshmarket Alley, Ian Rankin
  
• A Question of Blood, Ian Rankin
  
• McSweeney's #16 (They aren't kidding, it comes with a comb. Why is there a watermelon comb there?)
  
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
  
• The Time-Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger. Okay, one tiny bit of commentary: I loved this book. Loved it. I don't usually do a whole lot of re-reading of books (Jane Eyre being an exception), but this one will be read again.
  
• Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book Collection vols. 1,2, and 3, Terry Moore (A handy way to catch up, by which I mean "start reading from the beginning".)
  
• Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk. I could've lived my life quite happily without ever once having read "Guts". Seriously. I suppose though that since I did sort of ask a friend to send me a link to it a while ago when he mentioned it, I did get exactly what I asked for.
  

If I count correctly, that's 28 completed so far this year. (I forgot to count Nick Hornby's The Polysyllabic Spree in with May's books). I'm slacking, it seems.

Your grasp of Human-Human Interaction could use refreshing, bub.

I'm on one of the ACM SIGCHI (Computer-Human Interaction) mailing lists. Or rather, I was until I got booted because mail was bouncing. Considering I have it filtered into a separate folder and read it maybe once a month, I hadn't even noticed until I got ( this gem in my inbox today: )

Yeah, being a condescending prick to and about the mail administrator is the best of all possible ways to make sure that your mail gets delivered.

Okay, quick scan of Bookslut and then back to coffee and database design.

Autodesk obviously has capabilities I wasn't aware of

If none of these options works, turn off Today. Then try turning on Today at a later date to see if your problem has been fixed.

Finally!

The on-sale date for Dead Can Dance tickets has been posted. Yeowch! Not that I won't shell out for it, of course, but I'll whine about it and the additional $325 in assorted Ticketbastard fees while I do. If anyone wants me to try to pick up a block of tickets, best to be letting me know now since I doubt these are going to last very long.

Dead Can Dance
Monday, October 10, 2005 at 8:00 PM
Music Center at Strathmore

I.M.P Presents Dead Can Dance.

Tickets on sale Friday, August 5th, at 10:00 a.m.
Tickets prices: $75, $55.