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Alright, this was supposed to be a much longer post, but — darn it! — I didn’t save it and it apparently went bye bye. So instead, here’s a short list and one sentence short overview of the books I’ve plowed through in the past two two weeks.

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To clarify, this message aimed at is all of the parents (or about-to-be-parents) who read this blog (not just at my parents). Also, if you’re not a parent, or about to be one, you’ll probably want to forgo this, although you’ll probably at least want to forward it to someone who falls into one of [...]

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The following are some points that stood out to me while reading How to Get Rich, by Donald Trump, listed here by chapter. I’ve bolded both chapter titles (which are lessons in themselves) and extremely important points within the quotes. I’ve also added some personal observations in [brackets].

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Myst: The Book of Atrus, is the first novel in the Myst series of books, which expands on the universe used in UbiSoft’s Myst series. In this piece I will be giving a short synopsis of the book as well as do an overall review. (Warning: Some spoilers! If you don’t want to read the [...]

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A few days ago I started reading Sir Thomas Malory’s book Le Morte D’Arthur. After a few hours, I stopped. In that time I made the following observations, which should explain why I stopped:

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I’m a bookworm. I loooooove books, which is one of the reasons my first few jobs were in bookstores. I loved being surrounded by books. Loved it then; love it even more now. I’m in the middle of moving a few bookshelves around, so to make the job easier I decided to stack all my [...]

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I’m out for the weekend, headed to Orlando, FL for some serious sun-and-fun at the beautiful beac–… wait, Orlando doesn’t have any beaches. Well, it does have Disne–… No, actually that’s in Kissimmee. Man what gives? Actually I’m headed to Orlando for a conference, which, though not a beach, I expect to thoroughly enjoy and [...]

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This is the follow up to the postThoughts on Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson. Here I continue with what I’ve learned while reading this book. When I first started reading this book, Richard Branson seemed to me like just a more successful version of just about every pampas, big-headed business jerk I’d ever met. [...]

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I’m currently in the middle of reading Sir Richard Branson‘s autobiography, Losing My Virginity. The book is both fun to read and extremely educational, if you know what you’re looking for. Although I haven’t yet finished the book (I’m just over half-way through), I thought I’d go ahead and post these lessons learned. Any entrepreneur [...]

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I’ve just finished reading Jon Gruden’s Do You Love Football?!, which is essentially his autobiography up to right after winning the Super Bowl with Tampa Bay in 2002. (w00t!) The book talks about his experiences with football over the years, especially in the coaching aspect, since he was never a particularly great player (by his [...]

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