Sic Luceat Lux.

Читаю Life -- автобиографию Keith Richards'a. Это труба, апокалипсис и анархия.

Apropos, недавно видел комментарий на ю-тюбе к клипу Jumping Jack Flash -- одной из моих любимых песен Stones: "Keith Richards cannot be killed by conventional weapons".

Indeed.

Хочется прикупить ещё нечитанных книжек. Сразу дилемма -- брать на Киндл в электронном формате, и всё же живьём?

Как общественность нынче книжки покупает?

Got myself a copy of Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. Yes, I am the very last person in the universe to get a particular book everyone has already read, yet again.

Thoroughly enjoying it so far.

The book is a 2005 hardcover edition, I got it second-hand via amazon. It is fairly large, has black leather cover and it's gilded on the sides (no word about this nonsense in its description). It looks like the Good Book (your choice which), and I thoroughly confuse my fellow subway riders with it. When I get this incunabulum out of my backpack people take me for a Talmudic scholar or a born-again dude. And then they freak out when I start laughing whilst reading it.

Added fun, I tell you.

I'm probably the last person to have ordered this book by Jon Stewart et al, but I do believe it's better late than never.

When the book arrived at work, I have of course indulged in a few pages and started laughing my ass off, rattling my fragile coworkers.

You have got to love these guys. I mean, The Daily Show was always funny (despite them slummin' for Barack these days).

In the intro section on Democracy Before America,  there is a section on Timeline of Democracy with the

Developers at my picture host, Zenfolio, apparently are big adepts of this book - "Getting Real" by 37Signals.

It's  a very alternative approach to build software...just reading the table of contents is fascinating.

Reading Ghost Wars: a secret history of Afghanistan, CIA and Bin Laden, from Soviet invasion to Sep 10, 2001. So far not bad.