Reading list...

It's been a while since I posted, things have been so hectic with the MerpCon convention http://merpcon.merp.com coming up next week, getting everything ready for that, getting some software prototype I've been working on for almost 5 months to the finished prototype stage, getting ready for the client showing up today, getting the guest speaker travel arrangements taken care of, physical therapy, the house, kids, etc. I just haven't had time to post so much going on alas. I know I should probably take time out to do so, but oh well. Anyway, as a quick post, I thought I'd some of the reading material I've been fitting in the past year and half, maybe some would find it interesting:

• Rereading the Silmarillion and Unfinished tales in preparing the "Escape from Numenor" module for the MerpCon convention


• Robert Aitken's "The Mind of Clover"


• Robert Aitken's "Taking the path of Zen"


• Stephen Batchelor "Buddhism Without Beliefs"


• "The Matrix and Philosophy"


• Sun Tzu "The Art of War"


• Han Fei Tzu "Legalist Writings"


• O.E. Simon "The Law of the Fist"


• John Hersey "Hiroshima"


• Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate "Introducing Evolutionary Psychology"

There are about 3-4 others I can't quite recall right now.
I have two I'm just starting right now too:

• Kevin Kelly "Out of Control"


• Jean Baudrillard "Simulacra and Simulation"

Plus a couple I have to read for school:

• Stella Ting-Toomey Communicating Across Cultures"


• Norine Dresser "Multicultural Manners"

I wish I had time to write reviews of each. Maybe after the convention is over I can get a little caught up and slow things down enough to do so. I have very definite opinions (gee that's so difficult to elicit from me now isn't it? ;-P ) about some of them, but no time to go into them right now.
Cheers everyone!