# It's Cold So I'm Reading Books

2025-02-18 - [53] 12:5

Another polar vortex... apparently the 10th of this season? Dang the windchill is brutal. Looks like temps will be below 0F for the next few days.

Rather than programming in my very cold office, I have decided to sit under what feels like a billion blankets and read. I just finished up "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer and am now reading "Remember It!" by Nelson Dellis, which I hope to finish up in the next day or so. For the vast majority of my adult life, I just didn't read books at all. When I say at all, I mean at all. I'm trying to fix that, although I honestly don't think I'm going to become a prolific reader. I'm just glad I finished reading "Godel, Escher, Bach" this year. The small list of books I have finished can be seen at the following link.

Books I Have Read

After "Remember It!", I'm tempted to read from start to finish "Astronomical Algorithms" by Jean Meeus, which I used extensively for my Sun/Moon/Earth tracking program "Syzygy". It doesn't exactly look like one of those books that is necessarily meant to be read from start to finish, but I feel like doing so, even if I mostly skim over equations, will give me a better understanding of what else I can take from the book. It'll be nice to finish up the books I have in my (unfortunately quite small) library.

Once things warm up again, I'll be back in my office programming, probably working on either Game Boy printer support or a title screen for my Game Boy tarot reader project. I also have plans to eventually make a phone phreaking "Rainbow Box" cartridge at some point.

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