Brain Balm
Published April 09, 2003
Had myself a little adventure last night...on a mission to find a decent book on .NET programming.
So after a stop for dinner at the Red Arrow Diner, we hit the local Barnes & Noble.
It's truly amazing: there are so many poorly written software titles out there. Page after page laden with only-in-high-school-allow-me-to-repeat-myself-in-a-slightly-different-way paragraphs. Gotta pad out the content.
As in most genres, the quality runs the spectrum from great to kinda OK to stink-a-rama. After becoming quite frustrated I stumbled onto a pretty decent book, paid the more than slightly shocking price of $59.99, and left for home.
After all of that psychic noise, I needed some brain candy. The remedy turned out to be reading a couple of chapters of Kerouac's The Town And The City...while listening to Stan Getz and Chet Baker.
phew!!
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)
Mark Saleski is a writer and music obsessive based out of the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. On his best day, he hopes to channel the ghosts of Lester Bangs and Jack Kerouac. He spends the hours of 9:32PM to 1:37AM carving out music reviews and essays for Jazz.com, Blogcritics.org and other publications.
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in fact, that was the second cd that i listened to!
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Thanks for the info on .NET. I believe 85 percent of the books on the market are worthless rehashes of help files and documentation. Trash. As far as the CD I love Stan Getz. You have to get Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz Jazz Samba CD.