A pretty uneventful weekend/holiday all around. Pretty much just sat
around and read most of the weekend.

Picked up a couple books from B&N. Why People
Belive Weird Things by Michael Shermer,
Stupid White Men
by Michael Moore, The
Phillip K Dick Reader, and
An Eames
Primer (books on 20th century americian designers seems to be my
new kick…)

So far only read “Why People Believe Weird Things”. Fairly entertaining
overall, though the chapter about Frank Tipler and his “omega point
theory” was just bizarre and didnt seem to fit in at all. Especially
the 4 page digression on why Tipler being a firstborn child causes
him to be weird. wtf is that doing in the middle of an otherwise adequate
book on skepticism? I almost expected to get to the end of the chapter
and have the last paragraph be “Just kidding. If you believed that perhaps
you should read chapters 1-4 again” but no such luck.

The book of Philip K Dick stories is somewhat interesting. Mainly just
because I hardly read fiction, and basically never read sci-fi or fantasy
books/stories. But aside from my trouble “suspending disbelief” it’s
pretty entertaining. I suspect reading a book on skepticism at the same
time doesn’t help ;-> Kind of interesting to read a short story with a
pretty obvious anti-scientiology theme to it that was written in 1954 though.