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Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Thoughts both confusing and enlightening.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Thoughts both confusing and enlightening.

Book Sale Haul

elbeno, 14 July, 200729 July, 2007

Today was the quarterly book sale at the Culver City library. The haul:

  • 16 Hardy Boys books
  • The Past Through Tomorrow – Robert A Heinlein
  • River Out of Eden – Richard Dawkins
  • Operating Systems Design and Implementation – Andrew Tanenbaum
  • The Design of the Unix Operating System – Maurice Bach
  • Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation – Hopcroft & Ullman
  • Mathematics for Dynamic Modeling – Edward Beltrami
  • Introduction to Parallel Computing: Design and Analysis of Algorithms – Kumar, Grama, Gupta & Karypis
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