Is it time to fly yet?
From the “always be learning department, December’s new tech to learn is FPGAs!
I’ll be continuing my quests to become intermediate with Commodore Assembly and writing some simple tools in Rust.
Oh, and that Maximite there needs some attention. How do people have time for TV?
Several of my friends brought up T-38s as their favorite 60s era jets to look for on eBay. Sometimes I wonder if Alexa is listening to us because over the weekend I counted at least 9 T-38s at the airport. And no, this is not a common occurrence to see them at all here.
Every year, for … well, I can’t even remember, let’s call it more than a decade, I’ve read “Cryptonomicon”. There’s something about late November and December that makes me come back to it.
I first picked it up in 1999 and tore through it. It’s long, and… what’s the word? Not tedious. Pedantic maybe? Stephenson has a way of taking what should be a 2 sentence description and turning it into 5 pages. While I’d get angry at most authors for doing this, somehow, it really works in this book. Pedantic? Maybe. Brilliant? Definitely.
The other one I read often is “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.” This time of year, when we get to the entirely made-up “end of the year, let’s reflect” time, it helps me set up the mindset I’m looking for to focus on for the year ahead.
What are your favorite fiction books, and why?
