Road trip! (Maybe I should have waited til I could photosnap a bridge… ) #Wichita2DightonKS
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Road trip! (Maybe I should have waited til I could photosnap a bridge… ) #Wichita2DightonKS
As someone who feels like everything needs to be perfect, this is a cute book to remind us that not everything works out how you think it might and that's okay.
pickI found it very cute that the author addresses the book “to all the little perfectionist in the world.“ This story embraces creativity and how it's important to learn how to fail. This will show children to embrace joys of the creative process.
so-soI do love John McPhee, but I was never able to get into this. I tried four different times, over 16 months. I did finish. The topics are good. The Mississippi River would naturally have changed channels on 1973. A town in Iceland tries to save itself from a series of lava flows. And in LA one of the best places to live are the San Gabriel Mountains, where landslides and debris flows are coming everywhere, sooner or later.
pickWow! Excellent and thorough. The super technical chapters about how the solid rocket boosters worked were a tougher slog for me than the chapters in which Vaughan laid out the theory of the normalization of deviance, but this was well worth reading overall. I borrowed my copy but need one of my own for a re-read!
1. This is the vacation I‘d like to take. Train from DC to LA, hang out a few days in Southern California, cruise to and through the Panama Canal, arrive Baltimore about a month after leaving.
2. As @TheSpineView said, I would definitely take my Kindle. I‘d probably spend a lot of time on the observation deck as well. #two4tuesday
pickGreat collection of ancient inventions! I gave my copy to my brother in law.
Love me some nonfiction! #TLT #ThreeListThursday
pickThe path to a calculator takes us from counting rods to abacuses to slide rules and through mechanical and electrical adding machines to get to the glory days of the late 20th century and the ubiquitous TI-81. Houston rides us into the sunset as well, detailing the calculators replacement by - and assimilation into - the computer and mobile device. A great read all the way through, and I will be looking for his works on Punctuation and The Book.
