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Glowing, obsession, performance art, and a dead duck: my year in reading
by JS on December 30, 2011
Inspired by the The Millions Year in Reading series, I decided to post my favorite reads of the year. Narrowing it down to just a few, here are the books I enjoyed most in 2011 year: Kevin Brockmeier’s The Illumination (…)
Changing direction
by JS on October 31, 2011
But speaking of art, we are really talking about a cultural shift, and it is art that is so important when you want to change a culture. We doctors can talk pathology and disease forever, but what really causes change (…)
Thinking and typing
by JS on July 3, 2011
I’m not working on my really needs to be updated portfolio site. I’m not catching up on book reviews, even though I owe one for LibraryThing Early Reviewers and I read another novel I think was amazing (Kevin Brockmeier’s The (…)
In the moment at 105 degrees
by JS on May 24, 2011
I haven’t thrown up or passed out in two years of Bikram yoga classes. Though there have been fewer than a dozen instances when I really thought I might pass out (so I had to sit down before I fell (…)
The freedom of non-obvious connections
by JS on March 22, 2011
I was reading an article on Jonathan Ives (How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind £200billion Apple?) which mentioned he went to Japan to see one of the leading makers of samurai swords and spent hours (…)