Settling In

[l33tminion]

It was nice seeing some of my Cleveland friends, and now I'm back in Boston.

Reading over the course of my trip:

• The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson- Good if you like Neil Stephenson's work, which I really do.
• The Fountains of Youth by Brian Stableford- I really like the "Emortality" series...
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman- Not as good as American Gods, but good nonetheless.
• Crossfire and Crucible by Nancy Kress- Solid space opera.
• Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler- Really good, really strange. I need to read more by this author...
• God's Debris by Scott Adams- Interesting, clever, stupid, and aggravating for the same reasons dilbertblog is.
• The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell- Olin's summer reading. Sort of interesting, but there's a lot of stating the obvious and the author confuses correlation and causation in service of his thesis.

Today, I moved in to my apartment, played some DDR (got a B on Rhythm and Police on Heavy), joined MITSFS (almost as overwhelming book-wise as the New England Mobile Book Fair), bought some groceries (got a Shaw's card), and prepared for my job. I got my T pass, but, unfortunately, my PS2 was delivered while I was away and they require a signature in person (at least it wasn't too early; I've still got a week to pick it up at the depot).