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"Story of Ain’t" by David Skinner

Rating: 2/5

The Story of Ain't

David Skinner, The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  June 11, 2013      2 minutes, 15 seconds
  Books>Nonfiction      2star, culture, David Skinner, history, language

"The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Rating: 2/5

Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan (New York: Random House, 2007).

This book was a disappointment. It st...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  March 10, 2013      0 minutes, 34 seconds
  Books>Nonfiction      2star, cognitive bias, logical fallacy, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, probability

"Water Rat of Wanchai" by Ian Hamilton

Rating: 2/5

Water Rat of Wanchai

Ian Hamilton, The Water Rat of Wanchai (Toronto: House of Anansi, 2011).

Yawn! This has to be one of the mo...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  February 15, 2013      1 minute, 36 seconds
  Books>Fiction      2star, Ava Lee, Ian Hamilton

Assassin’s Creed III: Fail!

Rating: 2/5

This past weekend I had the opportunity of visiting with a brother- and sister-in-law, their daughter, and thei...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  November 06, 2012      4 minutes, 11 seconds
  Games      2star, Ubisoft

"Die Trying" by Lee Child

Rating: 2/5

Lee Child, Die Trying (New York: Berkeley Books, 1998).

I give the first book of a series a lot of leeway,...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  July 10, 2012      3 minutes, 9 seconds
  Books>Fiction      2star, Jack Reacher, Lee Child
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  • Super Duper Games
    Long-running site where you can play abstract strategy board games
  • Abstract Play
    Eventual successor to Super Duper Games
  • Empirical Editors
    List of empirical research on topics related to editing
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    Plugin for Word with some tools I regularly use
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    If you want to play Gnostica but not with Tarot
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    Demos of some of the Grav themes and plugins I've created

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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
-- Pavithra Mehta

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