"... and an A for YOU... next...?"

Well, it took until the last week of the semester, but a few students in my Modern Physics class figured out how to guarantee themselves an "A" on an assignment from Dr. Dave. One student opened her final paper on "Quantum Weirdness" with a quote from Carl Sagan. Another student... with a quote from Yoda!

Congrats, kids... you've cracked the code.  (posted by Dave at 10:44 PM || )

  new books! new books! new books! new books! new books!

(Sorry. The phrase always puts me in the mind of Paul Schaeffer c. 1990)

So Jennifer and I drove to Connecticut today for the "Scholastic Warehouse Boooksale"... a whole giant warehouse crammed with 50% off books. We spent $105. That's a crapload of books.

But I'm pretty set for the summer now as far as summer-fiction-reading goes. I always try to put aside the science-geekery for a little bit during the summer and read some fiction and/or littra-chaw, and this is what I have lined up so far...

"jPod" - by Douglas Coupland, which comes out next week and I'm REALLY excited about because it's over 400 pages and sometimes his books can be really short and I wait for 3 years for them and then read them in an afternoon.

"Dharma Bums" - by Jack Kerouac, because this summer it'll be 10 years since I read "On The Road" for the first time. I was alone in Switzerland for a week and I found it really depressing. I figured I'd give Kerouac another chance.

"Dune" - by Frank Herbert, because I have an embarrassing Dune-hole in my geek cred.

"The Subtle Knife" - by Philip Pullman, because I read the first book in the series and it didn't suck, and when that happens I feel compelled to read the whole series until they DO start to suck, and sometimes even that doesn't stop me. (See Rice, Anne)

"The Historian" - by Elizabeth Kostova, because I heard a story about it on NPR a year ago, and NPR can make anything sound good. I don't even remember what it's about, except that it sounded kinda like the Da Vinci Code... only with Dracula.

We'll see how much I actually get read. I could list the NON-fiction titles I have piled on my nightstand as well, but... that would be a much longer and much more boring list!  (posted by Dave at 7:06 PM || )