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07/12/2001 Archived Entry: "What I've done"

Books I've read recently:

(from the SF Masterworks series)
Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Gateway by Frederick Pohl

Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

Books I'm currently reading:

The Centauri Device* by M. John Harrison
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

[* This book is good. It's funny. Unfortunately, it possesses a special kind of property that makes it completely incomprehensible to my brain (and probably my brain alone) so that as soon as I read about ten pages, I fall asleep. Thus, it's a great bedtime book]

Things I've been doing

Cleaning up my email inbox
Putting the final touches to my Mars map
Writing umpteen thousand words for my Guide of the AI movie game
Filling out forms
Playing unhealthy amounts of Tetrinet (multiplayer Tetris. According to something I read in this month's Edge, some studies show that playing Tetris can increase your IQ - and that's the story I'm sticking by!)

Yesterday evening I walked up to the hill where I take all of my sunset photos and noticed that every single path was completely overgrown - in fact, I couldn't even get to my favourite spot since there were too many bushes in the way. It's interesting how much a place can change in three months.