{"id":395,"date":"2009-07-16T23:03:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T23:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/07\/16\/blog_hol\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T23:03:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T23:03:53","slug":"blog_hol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/07\/16\/blog_hol\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog hol"},"content":{"rendered":"

This’ll be brief since it’s been a busy week. I’m aiming to get through my ‘to do’ list before heading off on holiday at the weekend. If past form is anything to go by, it will me take a few days to wind down. I have a plans for a grant application roiling in the back of my mind, still churning, still not quite formed. But eventually, I will come to rest.<\/p>\n

\tWe’re going to the seaside. The kids love the sand and the water, and my wife and I are happy to sit on the beach, me in the shade and her in the sun. Every so often, we will argue in the most desultory fashion about whose turn it is to take them out on a pedalo.<\/p>\n

\tI’ll be bringing my laptop, but only so I can finally get around to editing the video of our holiday from last year. I have three hours of footage from Sicily that I want to whittle down to a snappy 30 minutes \u2014 or less, if I can hold my nerve. I may spend some time sketching out a few ideas for blog posts. I’ve loaded my iPhone with movies and the entire 3rd series of The Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\tAnd I’ll bring some books.<\/p>\n

\t\"Summer<\/a><\/p>\n

\tIt struck me when I took this picture just how much my reading matter is linked to blogging. What has<\/em> become of me?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buzz Aldrin’s Magnificent Desolation<\/em> speaks to my “lunatic”:http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/scurry\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/imagine-there\u2019s-no-earth interests. I bought it to get the frank story of how Aldrin really crashed to earth<\/a> after landing safely back on the planet at the end of the Apollo 11 mission. It will be a counterpoint to the rampant anniversary celebrations going on around us (which, by the way, I am enjoying enormously!).<\/p>\n

\tSingh’s and Edzard’s Trick or Treatment<\/em> is the book that inspired the newspaper article that led to Singh being sued for libel. The case was highlighted by the electrifying Skeptics in the Pub meeting that I attended in May<\/a>. And the fight<\/a> goes on<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\tHuxley<\/em> is a character I have long admired, and not just for his connection with Imperial College. I read a short biography of him “earlier in the year”:http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/scurry\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/are-you-going-to-this-seminar-huxley\u2019s-speaking, but am looking to getting the complete story from Adrian Desmond’s book.<\/p>\n

\tFor ‘light relief’ I have Maxine<\/a> to thank for stirring a renewed interest in crime fiction. I still haven’t been able to get hold of the first book<\/a> in the Wallander series. But recent mention of Eric Ambler in The Guardian<\/em> (not a word, Henry) caught my attention, so I will be giving Uncommon Danger<\/em> a try.<\/p>\n

\tMind you, if I get stuck on that bloody pedalo, I probably won’t get very far with these…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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