Feb. 25th, 2006

From SocialMUX:
[cilbuP] EATer of Chris's eyebrows, Jenny is totally reading a book on Amazon via the Search Inside function. It's about what apparently was Microsoft's hiring practice for a while, that they'd ask logic puzzles and stuff at interviews, and all the user reviews are things like 'omg this book is useless Microsoft doesn't ask those questions anymore'. So what? Logic puzzles! Whee! Fun!
[cilbuP] EATer of Chris's eyebrows, Jenny says, "A wild and wacky Saturday night, this is..."
although I guess technically it is Friday night slash Saturday morning but whatever

The book is by one William Poundstone, who in 1985 published a book called Big Secrets. My dad had a copy of that one, till I appropriated it. It is about, well, secrets. Like how some magic tricks are done, and what the magnetic strip in dollar bills is for, and the history of the Coca-Cola formula and various supposed makeups of KFC's "11 secret herbs and spices". I loved that book.

He has since written Bigger Secrets and Biggest Secrets. I'm not sure why it took me this long to find this out, but now I must have those books. Along with a few others that he's written. The one on game theory looks good, from the few pages scanned for Look Inside.

YES I AM A NERD OKAY SHUT UP.

I also read (THIS IS A SEGUE, WE ARE DONE TALKING ABOUT BOOKS BY THAT GUY NOW) that frequent attacks of deja vu, especially ones accompanied by strange bouts of unexplained terror, can be symptoms of seizure in the temporal lobe. Man, I get those sometimes two and three times a week (but usually just once every week or so). I DONE GOTS THA EPILEPSY, 'PPARENTLY

I keep trying to add something witty for a last paragraph here, but it isn't working. I THINK I WILL END ENTRY THEN YES K BYE NOW

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