Cryptorepublican

How the hell did two years pass without my posting? Must correct that one of these days.

60. Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts by the Editors of Popular Mechanics
Pages: 192 (of 24,776 total)
Finished 9-Dec-2006

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Stats:
Books 60 / 59 - 101.7% (+28 days)
Pages 24,776 / 22,617 - 109.5% (+55 days)
Days 343 / 365 - 94.0%

61. Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book by Phil Gordon
Pages: 416 (of 25,192 total)
Finished 13-Dec-2006

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Stats:
Books 61 / 59 - 103.4% (+30 days)
Pages 25,192 / 22,617 - 111.4% (+60 days)
Days 347 / 365 - 95.1%


62. Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hickman
Pages: 384 (of 25,576 total)
Finished 18-Dec-2006

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Stats:
Books 62 / 59 - 105.1% (+32 days)
Pages 25,576 / 22,617 - 113.1% (+61 days)
Days 352 / 365 - 96.4%

Just a brief synopsis of the remaining books I've read this year. Barring some unexpected pocket of reading time, this is the haul for 2006.

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57. The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson
Pages: 384 (of 23,960 total)
Finished 29-Nov-2006

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Stats:
Books 57 / 59 - 96.6% (+19 days)
Pages 23,960 / 22,617 - 105.9% (+53 days)
Days 333 / 365 - 91.2%

58. Phil Gordon's Little Green Book by Phil Gordon
Pages: 320 (of 24,280 total)
Finished 5-Dec-2006

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Stats:
Books 58 / 59 - 98.3% (+19 days)
Pages 24,280 / 22,617 - 107.4% (+53 days)
Days 339 / 365 - 92.9%

59. The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web by Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag
Pages: 304 (of 24,584 total)
Finished 8-Dec-2006

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Stats:
Books 59 / 59 - 100.0% (+23 days)
Pages 24,584 / 22,617 - 108.7% (+55 days)
Days 342 / 365 - 93.7%

At this time, I've actually met all of my goals for reading this year. Only the writing about reading lags. I'll keep them short.

54. Debt of Bones by Terry Goodkind
Pages: 192 (of 22,964 total)
Finished 23-Oct-2006

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Stats:
Books 54 / 59 - 91.5% (+37 days)
Pages 22,964 / 22,617 - 101.5% (+73 days)
Days 297 / 365 - 81.4%

55. Catfantastic II, edited by Andre Norton & Martin H. Greenberg
Pages: 318 (of 23,282 total)
Finished 10-Nov-2006

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Stats:
Books 55 / 59 - 93.2% (+25 days)
Pages 23,282 / 22,617 - 102.9% (+61 days)
Days 315 / 365 - 86.3%

56. Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
Pages: 294 (of 23,576 total)
Finished 20-Nov-2006

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Stats:
Books 56 / 59 - 94.9% (+21 days)
Pages 23,576 / 22,617 - 104.2% (+55 days)
Days 325 / 365 - 89.0%

51. The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie
Pages: 479 (of 21,447 total)
Finished 5-Oct-2006

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Stats:
Books 51 / 59 - 86.4% (+36 days)
Pages 21,447 / 22,617 - 94.8% (+67 days)
Days 279 / 365 - 76.4%

52. mySQL in a Nutshell by Russell J. T. Dyer
Pages: 321 (of 21,768 total)
Finished 21-Oct-2006

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Stats:
Books 52 / 59 - 88.1% (+27 days)
Pages 21,768 / 22,617 - 96.2% (+56 days)
Days 295 / 365 - 80.8%

53. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
Pages: 1,104 (of 22,772 total)
Finished 22-Oct-2006

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Stats:
Books 53 / 59 - 89.8% (+32 days)
Pages 22,772 / 22,617 - 100.7% (+71 days)
Days 296 / 365 - 76.4%

Some time shortly after the wedding, I lost track of my friends' page here on LiveJournal and only just now started reading it again.

This isn't the first time I've gone "there and back again" on LJ. So, I'll give the same speech I did last time: If anything has happened in your life since July that you think I should know about, tell me directly. Now that I've started reading again, I'll probably keep up with new postings. So, if I don't know what you've been writing in your journal, it's not because I didn't read it, it's more likely because I didn't care enough to remember reading it. ;)

Playing catch-up again. Just finished book #56

48. Catfantastic ed by Andre Norton & Martin Greenberg
Pages: 380 (of 20,116 total)
Finished 9-Sep-2006

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Stats:
Books 48 / 59 - 81.4% (+44 days)
Pages 20,116 / 22,617 - 88.9% (+72 days)
Days 253 / 365 - 69.3%

49. A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison
Pages: 544 (of 20,560 total)
Finished 12-Sep-2006

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Stats:
Books 49 / 59 - 83.1% (+47 days)
Pages 20,560 / 22,617 - 90.9% (+75 days)
Days 256 / 365 - 70.1%

50. PHP Nuke Garage by Don Jones
Pages: 408 (of 20,968 total)
Finished 3-Oct-2006

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Stats:
Books 50 / 59 - 84.7% (+32 days)
Pages 20,968 / 22,617 - 91.3% (+56 days)
Days 277 / 365 - 75.9%

According to the latest polls, Jon Kyl and his opponent Jim Pederson are in a statistical dead heat in their race for Kyl's senate seat. Kyl, along with Tennessee's Bill "I can diagnose illness over CSPAN" Frist, was the architect first of the "Kyl Bill," a law to ban online wagering once and for all (unless it's on a horse race or a state lottery) and more recently of the successful amendment of the port security bill to contain provisions restricting online gambling.

If you would like to help oust Kyl and send a clear message to the anti-gaming contingent of Congress, there's now a place to do so: Poker Players against Kyl. (As the site is soliciting campaign contributions, you must be a US citizen or permanent resident alien to contribute and the maximum contribution is US$2,100.)

I have never contributed money to a Democrat in my life and rarely voted for one. Against most challengers, Jim Pederson wouldn't even get my vote. Against Jon Kyl, he gets my buy in at the 1/2 no-limit table: US$200.

Well, it took a lot and the straw that broke the camel's back was, in the general scope of individual liberties, a fairly minor one. But, I believe I have finally become more disgusted by the Republicans than I am by the Democrats.

Those who expect me to embrace the left now should note that this means the Republicans revolt me 92% of the time and the Democrats 90% of the time (with a sampling error of +/- 2%)

43. Phantom by Terry Goodkind
Pages: 592 (of 18,331 total)
Finished 25-Aug-2006

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Stats:
Books 43 / 59 - 72.9% (+30 days)
Pages 18,331 / 22,617 - 81.0% (+60 days)
Days 236 / 365 - 64.7%

44. Loving Lisp by Mark Watson
Pages: 60 (of 18,391 total)
Finished 26-Aug-2006

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Stats:
Books 44 / 59 - 74.6% (+35 days)
Pages 18,391 / 22,617 - 81.3% (+60 days)
Days 237 / 365 - 64.9%

The Quicksilver Trilogy by Neal Stephenson
45. Quicksilver - Pages: 480 (of 18,872)
46. King of the Vagabonds - Pages: 400 (of 19,272)
47. Odalisque - Pages: 464 (of 19,736)
Finished 29-Aug-2006

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Stats:
Books 47 / 59 - 79.7% (+51 days)
Pages 19,736 / 22,617 - 87.3% (+79 days)
Days 240 / 365 - 65.8%