Ad Hoc

Dave is a somewhat ad hoc being who is into:
following Christ
being a good dad
faith/science issues
biocomposites
flying boats
old Mazdas
absurdity
pants


....to name but a few things.

If you still want to know more, back in the mists of time, before blogging became the cool and smart, I kept an even more flagrantly egocentric website:
http://www.vergenet.net/~dave/


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Jun 19
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System of a read.

I read very randomly - usually multiple books at once - and I have a stack of to-be-read books a mile high, and a stack of half-finished nonfiction books. So I decided that from now on I will try to have at least three books on the go at any one time (four if you include the Bible, but that’s a given), viz:

- devotional/doctine (“spiritual”?) book

- general interest nonfiction book (usually popular science)

- fiction novel

and the rule is that I can’t move on to a new book from any category without finishing the other two first. This will hopefully prevent me giving up on the nonfiction and picking up another Terry Pratchett book instead, which is what usually happens.

So currently:

- The Reformed Pastor, by Richard Baxter [awesome]

- Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals, by Rupert Sheldrake [fascinating]

- The Reality Dysfunction, by Peter F. Hamilton [awesome/disturbing]

I hope this injects a bit more discipline into my reading.