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In roughly 29 hours (that’s around 4:30 AM Wednesday), R and I will be leaving for Burning Man.
This will be my third time, with my first being back in 2001 (it is hard to believe it has been seven years). R hasn’t been back to Black Rock City since the 2001 burn, when [...]

I finished Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Anathem, this evening. This is scheduled to hit the stores on September 9, 2008.
Like most of Stephenson’s novels (outside of his first few), it is a mighty tome. It is 890 pages long plus a glossary and several supplements where he unloads some of the math and theory. [...]