Archive for October, 2005
Turing (A Novel about Computation)
Title: Turing (A Novel about Computation) Author: Christos H. Papadimitriou Paperback: 283 pages Publisher: The MIT Press (April 1, 2005) ISBN: 0262661918 I saw this book on a table at a Borders and I wanted a book to take traveling, so I decided to try it. I’m glad I did! This is a very nice […]
October 8th, 2005 by alephnaught
What is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11
Title: What is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11 Author: Kenneth R. Feinberg Hardcover: 213 pages Publisher: PublicAffairs (May 13, 2005) ISBN: 1586483234 This is a must read book! I had two books left on my vacation, and decided to grab this one for the flight home. I read it […]
October 6th, 2005 by alephnaught
Flying to Milan
We ate breakfast and lunch at the hotel, with a little more shopping in the middle – I accidently broke Aviva’s sunglasses and so we went out looking for another pair. The hotel is very nice – I’d recommend it easily. We took a cab to the airport – its a long long way from […]
October 5th, 2005 by alephnaught
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life
Title: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint edition (April, 1998) ISBN: 0465024114 This book was disappointing. There was a lot of raw information about flow (that state where you loose sense of time and become completely focused on achieving some goal), and […]
October 5th, 2005 by alephnaught
Monreale
Today we got going slowly, did a small amount of shopping near the hotel, including finally getting Aviva a European current heating pad, and then took a cab up to Monreale. We arrived outside the Duomo in the main square in Monreale; Monreale is a small town on a hill about 8 kilometres outside of […]
October 4th, 2005 by alephnaught
Palermo
Today we walked to a sporting goods shop to see if I could get a Palermo football jersey – they didn’t have XXL. The, it was over to the Liberte area to shop a little, then caught the City Sightseeing bus to ride around Palermo for an hour or so. We got off near the […]
October 3rd, 2005 by alephnaught
Palermo – gruesome and amazing
We rented a cab for the morning. We started out at the Catacombe dei Cappuccini, which has the mummified remains of over 800 Palermitans, including children; the last is a two year old girl in 1912. This was really eerie; the remains, sometimes with some flesh attached, are clothed and standing up or laying down, […]
October 2nd, 2005 by alephnaught
Palermo
We woke at 7A and ate breakfast and showered and planned our day. We had planned to take a bus tour to Erice, Trapani and Segesta, but we’re just tired of sitting in buses and cars so we canceled. Instead, we took a cab over to the Palazzo Abbezia in the Kalsa, or old Arabic, […]
October 1st, 2005 by alephnaught
Arrival in Palermo
We got up and ate breakfast and then walked around outside the hotel a little. I wish Aviva had taken a dip in the pool – the view from the pool is incredible. We originally planned to take a train, but someone I respect at work as well as one of the tour guides on […]
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October 22nd, 2005 by alephnaught