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

Time For the Stars, Robert A. Heinlein

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins

I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter

In progress:

The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God, David J. Linden

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, Carl Sagan (edited by Ann Druyan)

Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution, Paul Watzlawick et al.

Teach Yourself Spanish Complete Course Package, Juan Kattan-Ibarra

On Deck:

1776, David McCullough (Still...)

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Daniel C. Dennett

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson

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"At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people."

- Jake in The Number of the Beast.

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"People have a funny habit of taking as 'natural' whatever they are used to—but there hasn't been any 'natural' environment, the way they mean it, since men climbed down out of trees."

"Wherever Man has mass and energy to work with and enough savy to know how to manipulate them, he can create any environment he needs."

Robert A. Heinlein, Farmer in the Sky, 1951.

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