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Monday, March 04, 2019

Books I Read 2018

Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 4: I Kissed a Squirrel and I Liked It -
    Ryan North and Erica Henderson
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarty
Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
American Assassin - Vince Flynn
The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia - Phillip Knightley and Colin Simpson
The Cartoon Guide to Genetics: Updated Edition - Larry Gonick and Mark Wheelis
Eat Sleep Poop: A Commmon Sense Guide to Your Baby's First Year - Scott W. Cohen, MD, FAAP
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Like I;m the Only Squirrel In the World -
    Ryan North and Erica Henderson with Murray and Renzi
Deadpool vs. Thanos - Tim Seeley
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M. Pirsig
Ed Mastery - Michael W. Lucas
The House with a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs
Leading the Unleadable: How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult People -
    Alan Willett
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War - David Halberstam
Seven Pillars of Widdom - T. E. Lawrence
Elk and Elk Hunting: Your Practical Guide to Fundamentals and Fine Points - Hartt Wixom
GunDigest Book of the Revolver - Grant Cunningham
Make you bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World - William H. McRaven
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter - Scott Adams
The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Artemis - Andy Weir

Thursday, January 04, 2018

Books I read 2017

The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper
War Stories from the Future - Art of Future Warfare Project
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts - William T. Cox
Trout Fishing in the Shenandoah National Park - Harry W. Murray
Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise - Richard C. Dorf and Thomas H. Byers
The Sugar Bush Chronicles: Adventures with the World's Most Photographed Squirrel - Kelly Foxton wtih Lou Harry
Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive
Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes - William Gurstelle
Riding the Red Horse - Edited by Tom Kratman and Vox Day
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch - Lewis Dartnell
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Power Vol 1 - Ryan North and Erica Henderson
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel You Know it is True Vol 2 - Ryan North and Erica Henderson
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel, You Really Got Me Now Vol 3 - Ryan North and Erica Henderson
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
The Wilderness Cabin - Calvin Rutstrum
The Long Arctic Search - The Narrative of Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, U.S.A - Frederick Schwatka
Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solving Approach - Edmund Weitz
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail - Theodore Roosevelt
Square Foot Gardening - Mel Bartholomew
African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist - Theodore Roosevelt
Monster Hunter International - Larry Correia 
The Ancient Engineers - L. Sprague de Camp
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
Arthas: Rise of the Lich King - Christie Golden
John MacNab - John Buchan
No Second Place Winner - Bill Jordan
Gardening in the Shade - Anne Halpin
The New Way of the Wilderness - Calvin Rutstrum
Computer Pattern Chaos and Beauty - Clifford A. Pickover
The Sloyd System of Wood Working - B. B. Hoffman, A. B.
Life of a Roman Soldier - Don Nardo
The Harlem Hellfighters - Max Brooks, Illustrated by Caanan White
No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal - Gen. Merrill B. Twining, USMC (Ret.)
Permission Marketing - Seth Godin
Star Wars Vol. 1: Skywalker Strikes  - Jason Aaron
Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 1: Vader - Kielron Gillen

Sunday, January 08, 2017

Books I read 2016

A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide: The Deserts of the Southwest - Peggy Larson
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan - Winston Churchill
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words - Randall Monroe
The Black Swan: The Impact of Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Battle of the Bulge: A Graphic History of Allied Victory in the Ardennes, 1944-1945 -
Wayne Vansant
Dinosaur Comics: Fig e. Everybody knows failure is just success rounded down. - Ryan North
Talk Like Ted - Carmino Gallo
Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them: Newt Scamander - J.K. Rowling
Quidditch Through The Ages: Kennilworthy Whip - J.K. Rowling
The Tales of Beedle the Bard: With Additional notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore: J.K. Rowling
Shadow Command - Dale Brown
Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem Solving Approach - Gerald M. Weinberg
Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story - Vladislav Tamarov
A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander
Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism - David KilCullen
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two - Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, J.K. Rowling
A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide: The Piedmont - Michael A. Godfrey
Manual of Lathe Operation and Machinists Tables - Engineering Department of the Atlas Press Company
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi
Wardogs: The TRUE STORY of How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Because the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History - Guy Lawson
D&D Basic Rules: Player's Basic Rules Version 0.2 - Wizards of the Coast
Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe - Malcolm Nance and Richard Engel
The Grid - Peter Seibel
The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted 
Textually from the Gospels - Compiled by Thomas Jefferson
Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
D&D Basic Rules: Dungeon Master's Basic Rules Version 0.3 - Wizards of the Coast
Gon - Masashi Tanaka

Sunday, January 03, 2016

Books I read 2015

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - John Henry Patterson
The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa'ud - Robert Lacey
Thinking About America's Defense: An Analytical Memoir - Glenn A. Kent
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.
Military History - Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice
MiG: Fifty Years of Secret Aircraft Design - R. A. Belyakov and J. Marmain
Pigsticking or, Hoghunting: a complete account for sportsmen, and others - R. S. S. Baden-Powell
Guerrilla: A Novel - Lord Dunsany
Thirteen Years Among The Wild Beasts Of India: Their Haunts And Habits From Personal
Observation With An Account Of The Modes Of Capturing And
Taming Elephants - George P Sanderson
On War - Carl von Clausewitz [Translated by Colonel J.J.Graham, Revised by Colonel F.N. Maude]
The Mythical Man-Month - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
The Martian - Andy Weir
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World - Gen. Stanley McCrystal, Tantum
Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell
Meditations on Hunting - José Ortega y Gasset, Translated by Howard B. Wescott
The Wit and Widsom of Benjamin Franklin: A treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes and Observations -
James C. Humes
Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the North West, 2nd ed. - Colonel Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch
Dreamland: Razor's Edge - Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice
Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance - Donald Mackenzie
War as I Knew It - General George S. Patton, Jr.
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War - P. W. Singer and August Cole
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini, PhD.
The Student's Manual of Tactics - Matthew Horace Hayes
Global Value: How to Spot Bubbles, Avoid Market Crashes, and Earn Big Returns in the
Stock Market - Meb Faber
Global Asset Allocation: A Survey of the World's Top Investment Strategies - Meb Faber
Shareholder Yield: A Better Approach to Dividend Investing - Meb Faber

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Books I read 2014

The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting, Tips, and
Advice on First-Year Maintenance - Louwis Borgenicht and Joe Botgenicht
Dinosaur Comics: fig. d Dudes already know about chickens. - Ryan North
Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on
Your Kid - Shaun Gallagher
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My
Life - Scott Adams
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
The Creative Engineer: The Art of Inventing - Winston E. Kock
Warfighting: MCDP 1 - U.S. Marine Corps PCN 142 000006 00
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Do-It-Yourself Energy-Saving Projects - Sunset Book
The Colt 1911: An Engineer's Perspective - Malcolm J. Werner
T-Rex Trying - Hugh Murphy
The Dictator's Handbook: A practical manual for the aspiring
tyrant - Randall Wood & Carmine DeLuca
Crisis In Zefra - Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts (Canadian Army)
Charlie Wilson's War - Goerge Crile
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon? - Robert X. Cringely
Men's Style - Russel Smith
The Scientific Breakthrough: The Impact of Modern Invention - Ronald W. Clark
Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov
Sniper: A History of the US Marksman - Martin Pegler
American Indian Myths and Legends - Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School - Edited
by Carl Japikse
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe

Thursday, January 09, 2014

Books I Read 2013

All In: The Education of General David Petraeus - Paula Broadwell
The Bro Code - Matt Kuhn
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility - Stewart Brand
Spec Ops - William H. McRaven
Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
Analogue Computers - K.N. Dodd (Teach yourself books)
Marine Sniper - Charles Henderson
Hammerheads - Dale Brown
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
Rogue Forces - Dale Brown
Animal, Vegatable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
Roughing it Elegantly: A Practical Guide to Canoe Camping - Patricia J. Bell
Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Theodore Roosevelt
Theories of International Politics and ZOMBIES - Daniel W. Drezner
Eat Sleep Poop: A Common Sense Guide to Your Baby's First Year - Scott W. Cohen
Guide to Your Baby's First Year - Mayo Clinic
The Old Way: A story of the first people - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
2004 Toyota Camry Owner's Manual - Toyota
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches - Theodore Roosevelt
Elmer Keith's Big Game Hunting - Elmer Keith
The Clock of the Long Now: Mechanical Drawings of the First Prototype

Sunday, February 03, 2013

2013 Superbowl pool template

New superbowl pool template

Not sure if I am doing it this year due to the move, but I update this file every year, so here it is.

Superbowl pool 2013