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These are available as ebooks through amazon - feature a number of pipe or cigar smoking characters, really a bit in the Steampunk or Teslapunk genre, but humor in the same vein as Adams and Pratchett.  And yes, my own writing efforts...

I've avoided watching the movie so far, but trapped on a flight back from Amsterdam to the Us, against my better judgement I did watch the thing. I thought the first movie was passable, but the second one is stunningly........horrible. I did enjoy Stephen Fry, who is a great actor and also I...

I also have a nook color and love the thing. Not only do I have about 150 books on it, I bought the 100 classic novel selection for a trivial amount of money (includes sherlock Holmes) I also play movies that I convert from DVD to MP4 format. Movies are fantastic. And of course I have...

So they are going to make a second movie with release at Christmas 2011!!! How good is that?

This is one of the great pipe shows. Additionally, Columbus is a fantastic city for pipes with several above average tobacconists. And to top it off, there is the German Village.

The preview that I saw was disturbingly bad. I hope that the movie is not as bad as the preview - perhaps they are trying to lower peoples' expectations so that anything will seem good.

Richard Brautigan - The Hawkline Monster - A gothic Western Neal Stephenson - The Big U, Cryptonomicon, (OK anything by him) John Barth - Letters Connie Willis - To Say Nothing of the Dog (ok everything she has written too) Douglas Montgomery - Response Surface Methodology :study: It might...

Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" continues his contribution to the literary world. Frequently confusing, especially the ending, but enjoyable and well worth the effort. I became a fan of his with his first novel, "The Big U" which was amazing fun to read. I think I may have been in grad school at...