Brian Sawyer

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  Brian Sawyer 8:45 pm on January 17, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

  Another Side of Brian 

  It ain’t me, babe:

  

   

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  Brian Sawyer 9:18 am on January 6, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

  Dictionary Suggest 

  If you love the way Google Suggest works and dig online dictionaries, you must try the ObjectGraph Dictionary (thanks for the link, Reg). Just start typing, and a list of possible word choices pops up and keeps narrowing the possible combinations with every new character you add:
  
  Unliike other online dictionaries, you get what amounts to a page of definitions with a single search, featuring several variants of the word you’re looking for. Also, no more searching several times for a word that you consistently misspell by only one letter. Your error will be made clear quite quickly. Just back up and type again!

   
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  Brian Sawyer 8:47 pm on January 5, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

  Brian Beckham: A Fantasy Photo Mash-up 

  Thanks to the wonders of Photoshop, I’ve created what I imagine to be my wife’s ideal husband:

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  UPDATE
  Perhaps this mash-up puts a finer point on my hypothesis:

  

   
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  Brian Sawyer 2:06 pm on January 2, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

  The Final Solution 

  

  [Note: Due to a recent precipitous drop in available free time, for the immediate future and continuing indefinitely for, I imagine, quite some time, the books I read and review (that is, if I even get a chance to do the latter after miraculously accomplishing the former) will be much shorter than they have in the past (e.g., I don't anticipate any A Suitable Boys any time soon). Also, my disclaimers may, at times, be longer than my actual reviews.]

  The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon. 131 pages, illustrated. Good read.

   
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  Brian Sawyer 1:01 am on January 1, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

  Completed in 2005 

  The Tipping Point
  by Malcolm Gladwell

  Assassination Vacation [audio]
  by Sarah Vowell

  The Full Cupboard of Life
  by Alexander McCall Smith

  The Code Book
  by Simon Singh

  McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
  by Michael Chabon (ed.)

  The Wisdom of Crowds
  by James Surowiecki

  Chronicles, Volume One [audio]
  by Bob Dylan (read by Sean Penn)

  The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
  by Michael Chabon

  The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
  [audio and print]
  by the Writers of The Daily Show