Reviews and Comments

I saw a photo online of a pumpkin sourdough bread and I could more or less envisage how the recipe would go but checked this book just to be sure. Sure enough, the book had a recipe similar to what I was thinking, suggested it could be made with parsnips instead of pumpkins (which I might try sometime, not something I would have even thought of), and suggested adding nutmeg (which is perhaps slightly more obvious, but a nice prompt). And that's just one of 240 recipes.

Hard for me to be objective about this one as it is a fictionalized account of me and people I know. But it is a warm family story set in a beautiful vacation area of eastern Canada.

Recommended by Elisabeth Hendrickson as a Deming-related quality resource more recent than Deming's works themselves.

Recommended to me by someone who does longsword dance and Morris dance.

One of a short list of Morris dance related novels.

Recommended on the Soft Skills Engineering podcast. Sounds like the book that invented or popularized the phrase "fall in love with the problem". The podcast called it a handbook for product managers, but also well worth a read for engineers.

Apparently this is a political science classic. If I remember right the context was intensity of political opinion compared with number of people with an opinion (enthusiasm gap and all that).

Saw this at a @berkeleymorris@sfba.social rehearsal and, well the title at least has me intrigued.

The story of the Luddites gets thrown around so much that I suspect it would be interesting to find out about it in more detail. I'm guessing I'll be surprised about who I find to be the sympathetic characters and who I don't.

Having already listened to the Revolutions podcast (from the same author), the most interesting part of the book for me was the period between the fall of Napolean and the revolution of 1830. This period is often seen as a quiet interlude between major events, and I suppose in some way it is, but this book makes it clear that the struggle between liberals and conservatives in France was actively underway then and Lafayette was in the middle of a decent amount of it. Of course the book covers the rest of Lafayete's life too but that period was the most fascinating for me.

Well I know someone who was using this as a source for the Thyrsus (which is some kind of staff-like object associated with Dionysus) but other than that the book goes on my list (at least of books to keep an eye out for) pretty much just based on the title.

I have several books, or online sources for this material and to be honest the number one thing which stands out for Margaris is pages 89–90 which list theorems of predicate logic. So helpful to see those stated explicitly.

Just saw this recommended and I realized that I know a little bit about our pioneers in various areas of politics but not enough.

Recommended on the Hacks On Tap podcast. Apparently there's a lot of backstory to Lincoln being Republican nominee at the 1860 convention.

Who knew that Bentham had written about sexuality and the regulation thereof at so much length?