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Books I read in 2006

Here is a list of the bulk of the books I have read in the year 2006. It doesn't even come close to keeping track of the technical journal articles I have read, the economics material I read daily, and 500+ pages of stuff I read for Mises University 2006.

Ayn Rand - Anthem
Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
Hank Haanegraf - The Last Disciple
John J. Pilch - Choosing a Bible Translation
Malcolm Gladwell - Blink
Michael Hedges and John Stropes - Rhythm, Sonority, and Silence
Rob Bell - Velvet Elvis
Robert Heinlein - Methuselah's Children
Thomas Friedman - The World is Flat
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Various Authors - Farscape Forever
Various Authors - Finding Serenity (on the television show Firefly)
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
Paul R. Scheele - Natural Brilliance
Paul R. Scheele - The Photoreading Whole Mind System
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
Murray Rothbard - For a New Liberty
Murray Rothbard - What Has the Government Done to our Money?
Gene Callahan - Economics for Real People
Thomas DiLorenzo - Lincoln Unmasked
Thomas Woods - The Politically Incorrect Guide to the History of America
Thomas Woods - The Church and the Market
Lawrence Vance - Christianity and War
T.S. Eliot - Poems
Robert Heinlein - Methuselah's Children

What are some of the cool books you read this year?

Word of the Year

Merriam-Webster Online's Words of the Year 2006



Once again, Stephen Colbert makes history by making up a word and then having it win the 2006 Word of the Year award. What the?

1. truthiness (noun)

1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)


2 :
"the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true,
rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect
Society, January 2006)

Blogging by Performancing

So I just downloaded Performancing again, a Firefox add-on that makes it really easy to blog within your browser, without resorting to going to Blogger's site to write. I like it!

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It's been a LONG time...

Hello there, my precious few loyal readers. I apologize for being so absent as of late. I have been so extremely busy writing papers about war, planning experiments in the lab, studying nanotechnology, practicing New Testament Greek, and researching economic history that I just haven't had the time to write blog posts. I know, I can't believe it either, NO TIME FOR BLOGGING!

So here's some recent news:

My best friend's wife had their first child! He is healthy and apparently confused, just like his daddy.

My brother and I were just eliminated from the Fantasy Football playoffs in the first round due to a series of unfortunate events.

I finally made my first good polymer films last week. It was the wafers, @#$^*!

I wrote a paper called Against War and the State. Apparently, it has made the rounds without my knowing and is receiving both vitriolic denouncement and critical acclaim. I can't wait till I revise it for official publication.

We went to St. Louis for Thanksgiving. It was awesome!

We have one week of classes left. I'm done in exactly 9 days. I can't wait to focus in on lab work! We've been getting good results this last week...

I am currently writing an concluding an extremely random blog post. See you later!