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Sight: The Two Towers, The Punch

Sound: best of Willie Nelson, best of Bond Films

Touch: Mark of Kri, Roadside Rescue

Taste: Mountain Dew

Smell: smells like Back to Work

Virtual: Fark, TMOL

Book List 2002

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Live From New York, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller

Batman: Bruce Wayne Fugitive, Greg Rucka and Ed Bruebaker

Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco, Brett Forrest

JLA: Tower of Babel, Mark Waid et al

The Archer's Tale, Bernard Cornwell

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Narcissus in Chains, Laurell K. Hamilton

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, Anthony Bourdain

** A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle

** A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle

** A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

The Leper of Saint Giles: The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

** Halloween, Curtis Richards

Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain

** Animal Farm, George Orwell

Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, Martin Gardner

Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, Anders Henriksson

What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained, Robert L. Wolke

Would You Rather?, Justin Heimberg, David Gomberg

The Descent, Jeff Long

St. Peter's Fair: The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

** The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien

Monk's Hood: The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

A Kiss of Shadows, Laurell K. Hamilton

Best of H.P. Lovecraft : Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, H.P. Lovecraft

Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Michael Moore

Detachment Bravo, Richard Marcinko

Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World, Walter Mosley

Eric, Terry Pratchett

The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkein

The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy

Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
** -- previously read

Book List 2001

Time for vacation -- not going anywhere, but not going to work either. I'll be around now and then. Peace out.
posted by dwinn at 5:34 PM

November *Hero* of the Month!
posted by dwinn at 1:16 PM

I wonder if Mordor is a giant microwave...
posted by dwinn at 3:24 PM

My granddad, Clarence Winningham, died this morning. He was 76.

He was the only grandfather I ever knew; my mom's dad died when she was a little girl. He was a Southern Gentleman, a hillbilly, a genius mechanic, a shrewd businessman, a prepetual teaser, yet always kind to his family.

I will miss him.
posted by dwinn at 3:47 PM

The Julie was out of town this weekend. The stage was set for hijinx.

I am too old for hijinx.

Friday I went to a delayed Halloween Party with my costume being that of the Superfans, which garnered a very positive reaction, even if the adhesive on the fake moustache was defective.

Over the weekend proper I took care of chores, laundry, shopping, and watched some football of both the collegiate and professional varieties. I picked up some comics I'd missed last month as well as some HeroClix and the Settlers of Catan 2-player Card Game (NOT a "collectable card game").

Julie finally came back and we went to the Outback, which apparently pipes in audo advertisements even when you're eating at your table. *This* was an idea that didn't need to happen, especially since I can see it happening at every restaurant in the future. Oy.
posted by dwinn at 5:31 PM

Yesterday I had the fun of going to an all-day seminar on the re-organization of my work group (that's "not really a re-org", even tho the same thing will probably happen.)

Actually, beyond the same old shit that gets talked about at these things, it wasn't horrible. I was at a table full of cool people, the eats were good, I got to watch some grizzled old veterans of ITD yell at the consultants about how this was the *sixth* re-org they'd been through with no appreciable changes... The end, tho, was the icing on the cake. A guy in the division that I don't work with stood up and began a fifteen minute long diatribe, during which he claimed that this re-org "wasn't a dream" and that "this is happening" and if you were not a part of it, you were "Stoopid!" High marks on the Unintentional Comedy Meter, folks.

But then came this pearl of wisdom: "James (head of dept) made all the Alligators (the people who wouldn't play along with this new vision) Stewards (people who headed the "communities"). And when all of the alligators are stewards, the alligators can't stab themselves in the back."

I'm thinking of making t-shirts with that on it. They'd sell well.
posted by dwinn at 5:03 PM