Analogmachine Blog: About

Non-Professional Interests:

1. Carnivorous Plants
2. Live Rat Catching: temporarily
3. Rocks and Holes in the Ground

Favorite Books:

Non-Fiction

1. God's Clockmaker, Richard of Wallingford, and the invention of time. John North
2. The Recursive Universe, William Poundstone
3. Chaos, Gleick
4. PI in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being, John D Barrow

Fiction

1. Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follet
2. Empire of the East series, Fred Saberhagen
3. Books of Swords, Fred Saberhagen
4. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C Clarke
5. Eon and Eternity, both by Greg Bear

Favorite Movies:

1. Quatermass and the Pit - both the original (1958-1959) and the 1967 version
2. Quest for Fire
3. Gladiator
4. Forbidden Planet

Favorite TV Shows:

1. Mad Men
2. Fast Show (UK comedy series)
3. Alan Partridge (UK comedy series)
4. Cranford
Favorite Quotes:

1. "He who cannot draw on 3000 years is living from hand to mouth" Goethe, 1800
2. "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" R Browning, 1860
3. "...for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself." Declaration of Arbroath, 1320
4. "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” Will Durant, 1944
5. "There are three kinds of people in this world, those who can count and those who cannot"
6. "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong", H.L Menchken