Ansible! Ansible! Time for the October Ansible!

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I open up today's The New York Times and find a big article on adding a home observatory to your house. Geekdom spreads!

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National Novel Writing Month is coming up fast! I'm not sure if I can manage a whole novel, but maybe a short work? Anybody else have something in the works?

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Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world.
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.
"Sir?"
YES?
"What's a curry?"
The blue fires flared deep in the eyes of Death.
HAVE YOU EVER BITTEN A RED-HOT ICE CUBE?
"No, sir," said Mort.
CURRY'S LIKE THAT.

(Mort, Terry Pratchett.) more...

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From the description this does not actually appear to be about October-ish subject matter such as ghosts, but the title certainly caught my eye. Another addition for Mount Toberead!

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Here's what I've read since my last report:

Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World, Chris Frith.

The Man Who Sold the Moon, Robert Heinlein.

In progress:

Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert.

Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett. This one is great, but a slow read. I keep re-reading sections to make sure I'm digesting them right.

On Deck:

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter.

Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World, Carl Zimmer.

About seven months' worth of Analog magazine. (I read two issues this past month!)

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"The researches of many commentators have already thrown much darkness on this subject, and it is probable that if they continue we shall soon know nothing at all about it."

(Mark Twain, on the mystery and history of pre-Columbian voyages to the Americas.)

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