Archive for the ‘books’ Category

Neurobics mind map

April 17, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I’d read the book “Фитнес для мозга. Нейробика. Кац Л. К., Рубин М.” it’s a russian translation of the book “Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises” by Lawrence Katz and Manning Rubin. As usual after reading I made a draft mind map. Today I’ve changed it slightly and here is the result (quite ugly as usual):


You won’t find any excercises here. This map just depicts the first part of book where authors explain what neurobics is and what the basic ways of “keeping brain alive” are.

Killing ape

November 2, 2007

Yesterday during the about an hour while I was reading the story “Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe I had a feeling that I’ve read something like this, with the same plot, where the ape killed people. But I still don’t remember what it was. Probably one of the stories from “The Magican”? I need to check it.

"Eleanor Rigby" by Douglas Coupland

October 18, 2007

Yesterday finished reading “Eleanor Rigby” written by Douglas Coupland. Very interesting but a little bit depressing novel. You can read about the plot and the general idea of the book here.

Books

September 25, 2007

Yesterday I dropped in a one big book shop to take a look at new java-books and fictions in English. It’s awesome! More than 1000 rub. (1360 rub) for Harry Potter (just for example) and about 500 rub. for some other books! I can find, download and print any of that books whitin a 5 minutes and it will cost to me no more than 100 rub. Of course, it is the matter of conscience, but I’ll never by a stuff at the such huge price.

"The Magican" by S. Maugham

September 19, 2007

Just finished reading “The Magican” by S. Maugham… yeah-yeah, exactly on my work place :-P Quite interesting and thrilling book. I’ve never read it before and will continue reading of all the stories from this collection.

Google rocks!

September 11, 2007

Just finished reading of book about Google. What can I say? Google rocks :)