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I am reminded again why I enjoy John Green’s writing style. It’s so accessible and smart at the same time.

The history of disease and its cultural aspects is fascinating. Also, I enjoy learning about the history of medical care since so much of it seems immutable, when really it is constantly changing.

I appreciate the way Penrose features the work of Minkowski and Poincaré in explaining what is typically and inexactly discussed as Einstein’s work.

A whirlwind birdseye view of physics. Love the categorization of various theories into superb, useful, and whatever the third less useful category is.

It’s crazy that I have lived experience and can answer some of the questions posed here about AI a mere handful of decades ago.

Good move to make Woody less of a jerk, because I think he’s already pretty much a jerk.

The evolution of Toy Story is fascinating

Enter Steve Jobs.

*He’s

Not surprised that Tim Burton’s designs were often rejected by early Disney executives. She’s got such a different style.

While the writing is a bit dry and expository, the subject is fascinating. I never realized how, for example, the university of Utah was involved with early advances in computer graphics (which led to the Silicon Slopes of the Wasatch Front), or how companies like Lucas Film were important to the careers of many who founded Pixar.

Teenagers + revenge. What could go wrong?

Decidedly mixed feelings about this book. Because: 1. The constant affirmations of messiness feels like it could become a slippery slope, 2. I think there IS a moral component to cleaning, though it shouldn’t determine a person’s worth, 3. The perspective is so deeply rooted in the Harm Ethos (c.f. The Righteous Mind) that it feels ignorant of other perspectives sometimes, and 4. Too many baskets. I just can’t.

So that’s what you meant when you said you were dying to talk about what happened at the end of Volume 2.

Because I knew you, I have been changed

When the moon hits your eye… that’s magic

The chief attribute of ravens strikes me as pertinent to this story.

I am so far behind, but I am enjoying it as I go

Glad to have Segundas back.