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Revision as of 20:40, 23 February 2014
Hullo Δ
Hobbies
- Yoga
- Pottery
- Camping
- puttering with computers
testing
Wishlist
Max out all the ram on everything
- work lappy
- athena - done :( 2 GB
- desktop - ??
- susan - 2 X DDR2 slots -> 16 GB?
- DSL modem ( unlooked )
- desktop upgrade -
To Learn
- Lustre file system http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Main_Page
- gluster file system http://www.gluster.org/
- Netapp
- Vmware -
- RedHat
- Nuke,Realflow
- Tractor - workflow
- NOSQL
- Hadoop
Books
Read
- Neuromancer
- Orientalism
To Read
- Diary of a mad man - Gogol
- The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- Alain L. Locke - The Biography of a Philosopher - Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth, University of Chicago press.
- The Economy of Renaissance Florence - Richard A. Goldthwaite, John Hopkins University Press
- Loeb Classical library ( http://www.edonnelly.com/loebs.html , ... ) of note:
- Polybius, The Histories
- Athenaeus, The Learned Banquetters
- Hippocrates,
- Cicero
- Macrobius, Saurnalia
- Plautus
- the ancient world online http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/
- Walt Whitman - Gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a600
- Mowat, Farley. The Snow Walker. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975.
- Stenson, Fred "The Trade" Douglas & McIntyre, 2000
- Thompson, David. Travels in Western North America, 1784-1812. (ed. Victor G. Hopwood). Toronto: Macmillan, 1971.
- Rasporich, Anthony W. William Lyon Mackenzie. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
- Biographies
- Canadian notable
- Pierre de La Verendrye
- Samuel Hearne
- Jacques Cartier, who gave Canada its name;
- Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec;
- David Thompson, the man who mapped close to four million square kilometres of Canada and is still considered one of the worlds greatest geographers.
- Further reading: http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISODESUM2LE.html
- Canadian notable
- The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler: An Oral… By Michael Posner
- Sisters In Two Worlds: A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
- Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP
- Historical notable
- Chuck norris
- Steve mcQueen
- Stalin
- Marxism
- Historical notable
Eyes
od
sphere -2.75 cylinder -0.75 axis 007
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sphere -3.00 cylinder -1.00 axis 167
PD : 52mm
List of places I've unsubscribed
- bell
