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== List of places I've unsubscribed ==
== List of places I've unsubscribed ==

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

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
      • 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

Eyes

od

sphere -2.75
cylinder -0.75
axis 007

os

sphere -3.00
cylinder -1.00
axis 167

PD : 52mm

List of places I've unsubscribed

  • bell

Notes