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Star Trek, the original series
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. The first science fiction story I read, which lead to all the others.
The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner. That's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll, with wonderful annotations by Martin Gardner.
Also since I was trying to write a Ph.D. thesis, it was just a revelation to see that MIT accepted something interesting and readable for his thesis.
when i was a kid:KOEI historical games - got me into using hex editors to change the stats :D the games exposed me to sun tzu art of war local book about python and unix - i used python around 2004 and beat the courses assignments ('beating the avg' reminds me of those days) ... later pg's great hacker on slashdot and then lisp - settled with newlisp now iBookG4 exposed me to unix, designs, hardwares and most importa…
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You might be able to find it by searching for "tobacco" because one point I remember was that the US government spent money on both subsidies for tobacco growers and anti-smoking campaigns.
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Free 10-day Buddhist meditation retreats, incl. room & board, at one of the many Vipassana Meditation Centers world-wide ( http://www.dhamma.org ). Very old-school; the real deal. The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0884270610 ). Most real-world systems have a single constraint that limit the system's ability to achieve goal units. The best way to improve the system is to (0) define…
Free 10-day Buddhist meditation retreats, incl. room & board, at one of the many Vipassana Meditation Centers world-wide ( http://www.dhamma.org ). Very old-school; the real deal. The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0884270610 ). Most real-world systems have a single constraint that limit the system's ability to achieve goal units. The best way to improve the system is to (0) define…
dhamma.org looks great. Just got to find the time to do one of these 10-day courses. They look intense from what I've been reading, but I think I'd really benefit. Did you do one of them?
http://novemberfive.blogspot.com/2007/11/ten-days-story-of-m...
Some books: "The Fountainhead" - gave me the gift of self-confidence "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution" - helps me understand where I come from and where I fit in the Biosphere "The Use of Knowledge in Society" - This, along with other pieces on economics and capitalist anarchism, gave me an appreciation for distributed non-hierarchical systems. ( http://www.econlib.org/Library/Essays/hykKnw…
Read The Djinn's Wife ( http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/thedjinnswife.shtml ). If you lack motivation to work on advanced software, this should put you right back on track. It is... Asimovesquely inspiring.