new books! new books! …and epoxy resin

i love getting new books… and today i got three….

Knoppix Hacks (O’Reilly)
Wireless Hacks (O’Reilly)
The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant – translated by J.H. Bernard [i don't know if this is the preferred translation, but it was the cheapest...]

i also ‘reviewed’ a couple reference books that a friend recommended…

The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate
The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate

both by Eugene Erlich… very good, but i couldn’t force myself to spend the money for something that would, unfortunately, not be used much… i find that i use the internet and it’s various search engines and wikis a much more readily available resource… and as i discovered not too long ago trillian [my IM client of choice for PC lately - see fire for mac] links directly to wikipedia for almost all the things you type into it… very nice…

i also finished [at least i hope i have finished... much work needs to be done after this part] coating my cardboard forms with epoxy resin… now i just have to figure out how to clean up the mess… ugh.