nerd alert '09

1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown) nf - unfortunately
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) f
3. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) f
4. The Ghost Map (Steven Johnson) nf
5. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) f
6. Longitude (Dava Sobel) nf
7. The Mensa Murders (Lee Martin) f
8. Merde (Ralph A. Lewin) nf - pooptastic
9. The Nautical Chart (Arturo Perez-Reverte) f
10. The Prestige (Christopher Priest) f
11. The Romanov Prophecy (Steve Berry) f
12. Steppenwolf (Herman Hesse) f
13. The Toothpick (Henry Petrosky) nf
14. World War Z (Max Brooks) f – fan favorite

I'll explain later!

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/The-Invasion-of-the-Green-Team-.html

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Before I continue on my delayed recaps...
I was thoroughly moved by an article about oinkers.

Can't wait to see you, McG.

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Let's see...

In early December, I left Guyana after making a special trip to see a very large waterfall called Kaieteur. It was an hour flight south of Georgetown and is technically known for having the (123rd) highest "free-fall" of water on earth.




There are frogs found only in the Kaieteur national forest called the Kaieteur Golden Frog. If it were provoked and it jumped onto your upper lip, it could secrete a gas (160 thousand times stronger than cocaine) that would put you in a coma! They spend their entire (pathetic) lives in the same plant and are about the size of a thumbnail.
After that, I spent two weeks in Chicago and found an apartment.

Then I flew back to Seattle for the weeks leading up to Christmas and the New Year.

On January 5th, 2009, I got into my laden 1990 Toyota Camry and drove to Chicago...

coming soon

more posts... I'm back online inchicago.

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dedly snake bai

Well, we found another labaria today. This one was big.

All the guys said it was the biggest one they've seen.

Did I mention that I leave camp tomorrow...for good?

nerd alert

I read more books this year than I've read in my past or future combined!

in particular order:

1. Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time (Stephen Baxter) nf
2. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) f
3. Animal Farm (George Orwell) f
4. Blue Like Jazz (Donald Miller) nf
5. The Case for a Creator (Lee Strobel) nf
6. The Chomsky / Foucault Debate – On Human Nature (Noam Chomsky and Michael Foucault) nf (you're boring me, stop boring me!)
7. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) f
   
8. Deep Jungle: Travel to the Heart of the Rainforest (Fred Pearce) nf
9. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (Laurence Gonzales) nf
10. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Edward Abbey) nf
11. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Phillip K. Dick) f
12. DUNE (Frank Herbert) f
13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Hunter S. Thompson) f?
14. The Fencing Master (Arturo Perz-Reverte) f
15. The Flanders Panel (Arturo Perz-Reverte) f
16. Frost at Christmas (R.D. Wingfield) f
17. I love you, Beth Cooper (Larry Doyle) f
18. The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man (Amir Aczel) nf
19. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) f (holy crap depressing)
20. Krakatau: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Simon Winchester) nf
21. Lord of the Flies (William Golding) f
22. The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Simon Winchester) nf
23. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) nf
24. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey) f
25. Plato: The Last Days of Socrates (Plato) nf
26. The Portrait of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde) f
27. The Road (Cormac McCarthy) f (holy crap depressing)
28. The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) f
29. The Seville Communion (Arturo Perz-Reverte) f
30. The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón) f
31. Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (C.D. Payne) f
32. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Charles Seife) nf
33. 1984 (George Orwell) f
    

didn’t get around to:
The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard De Chardin) nf
The Art of War (Sun Tzu) nf
Annals of the Former World (John McPhee) nf ~700pg (see ya)