Dog Named Banjo

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ESPN Derides Pavano. The sheer size of the font hurts my soul. I'd mock the Yankees for this but I'm afraid they'd remind me of Matt Clement ;-)

Book Review: A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia & Lee McAlester

Lengthily subtitled:

The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America - houses built for American families (rich, poor and in-between), in city and countryside, from the 17th century to the present.

I can't describe the content more accurately - except to say it is brilliantly illustrated with photographs, examples, drawings and sketches.

And I absolutely loved this book. Some books register a new idea or a new vocabulary - impart a little knowledge that colors the everyday world - and create a foundation for new observations and appreciations. This book is very much one of those.

Dad lent this to me last time I visited.  A deeply moody book - it is also a very crafted book. Written in a diary like style devoid of dates and times (which adds to the sense of despair and lost-ness) largely from the protagonist's perspective with occasional third person omniscient point of view.  Names are used only sparingly (if at all).  Reads very quickly.  It left me in a funk well after having finished - at the same time the style of the narrative and the structure of the novella are so carefully assembled to complement the setting and story - it feels almost a step too many was taken.  It feels, oddly, like a full length short story.

I'm curious to see how it stands in a few years; I read it almost a month ago and am still taking time to blog about it ...

Second part of the previously reviewed Cocoa book.  This is also the second edition of "Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming, " which is a more accurate title.  This is a cool book - much different from the (practical) tutorial based first book, this book is a walk through of unix programming and subsystems specific to OS X.  Covers File I/O, file systems, socket basic, the OS X keychain, BSD kqueues, etc.  Written in a consumable and readable style, I was sad to finish.  The chapters stand well alone (in fact, I read them very out of order reading first about the topics that were new to me).