Patrick Talmadge
From the monthly archives: June 2009
Finished reading A Fistful of Charms (The Hollows, Book 4) by Kim Harrison. A Fistful of Charms, the fourth book in the Hollows Series, plunges right into the action as Rachel Morgan finishes up her latest bounty hunting mission by taking down an alpha Were. When she returns home to find that her ex, [...]
Finished reading Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, Book 3) by Kim Harrison. In this book Rachel Morgan strikes a deal with the devil. To get the demon, Algaliarept, to testify at the trial of vampire Piscary she agrees to be Algaliarept familiar and share her aura. Rachel is certain she can maintain [...]
Finished reading The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (The Hollows, Book 2) by Kim Harrison. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead picks up were Dead Witch Walking left off. Rachel Morgan, former bounty hunter, has it pretty good. She left the corrupt Inderland Runner Service and started her own independent service. She’s [...]
Finished reading Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1) by Kim Harrison. Dead Witch Walking is about Rachel Morgan, a runner with the Inderland Runner Services. Rachel’s job is to apprehending law-breakers throughout Cincinnati. As a witch she is one of the many Inderlanders who revealed themselves after a genetically engineered virus wiped out [...]
Finished reading In Nixon’s Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate by L. Patrick Gray III and Ed Gray. L. Patrick Gray III was the FBI director for one year after the death of John Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI. Gray was the target of the Watergate attempts to have [...]
Finished reading Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton and Rose Friedman. Free to Choose is an international bestseller that depicts how personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls.
I don’t really have much to say about Free [...]
Over the weekend we ordered the baby’s crib and a matching dresser for the room. I had no idea how expensive baby furniture can be. Some of the cribs are well over a $1,000. Ridiculous, not sure how new parents can justify spending that much on a crib. Maybe its the fear [...]
We just had our twenty week appointment and found out we are having a boy! Here are some of our ultrasounds from our twenty week appointment and some earlier ones also. Boy parts have been blurred to protect the innocent.
Finished reading Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers poses the question of why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many others never reach their potential? Challenging our belief of the “self-made man,” Gladwell makes the claim that superstars don’t arise out of nowhere, “they are [...]
Finished reading The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, Book 3) by Brandon Sanderson. The Hero of Ages is the final book in the Mistborn Series. This book takes place after The Well of Ascension when they are tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension. The new [...]
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- Why is the Logitech Harmony software so painfully bad? 2012/02/05
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- @elementdave which model did you get? 2012/01/31
- @elementdave Nice... 3 mins with my small helicopter and you just had to get one? 2012/01/31
- RT @5marks: @patricktalmadge and I will be spending some time in the lab tonight putting some finishing touches on Agora. 2012/01/30
- Thank you @INGDIRECT for shafting me with a $50 fee for a early redemption fee on 30 shares out of a 1070 I sold. #whymutualfundssuck #IRA 2012/01/27
- RT @newsycombinator: Hackers have a twisted sense of humor. Watch this: if you laugh, you're one http://t.co/RdHxFVHq 2012/01/27
- RT @andrewchen: The Secret To Pinterest's Astounding Success: A Brilliant Sign-Up Process You Should Copy http://t.co/AsGi9pBx 2012/01/25
- 2 year old + Headlamp = nighttime play with out power #snowpocolypse #2012 2012/01/21
- Took a break from work to play in the snow with my son. #goodtimes #workingfromhome 2012/01/18
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