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READIN
READIN started out as a place for me
to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly)
how to design a web site.
There has been some mission drift
here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of
the main things I write about here are
reading books,
listening to (and playing) music, and
watching the movies. Also I write about the
work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.
The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.
See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.
🦋 Wanting to be Flaubert
Orhan Pamuk was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the University of Rouen last week; in his acceptance speech, he reflects on the modernist ideal of the reclusive author, and what he and other authors have taken from Flaubert. h/t LanguageHat.
posted morning of Monday, March 23rd, 2009 ➳ More posts about Orhan Pamuk ➳ More posts about Readings
Kate Beaton has two posts up today about the War of 1812: a funny cartoon about General Brock, and pictures of a new memorial (and an old memorial) in Toronto.
Orhan Pamuk was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the University of Rouen last week; in his 
Kate Beaton has two posts up today about the War of 1812: a 