Monday, June 28, 2004

Summer Reading List

Secrets of Word of Mouth Marketing. George Silverman
Snowcrash. Neal Stephenson
DaVinci Code. Dan Brown
Godel, Escher, Bach. Douglas R. Hofstadter
Modern C++ Design. Andrei Alexandrescu
Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus. Andre LaMothe
Diamond Age. Neal Stephenson
Mathematics and its History. John Stillwell
Wavelets(from SIGGRAPH course notes)

There are more titles I want to read, but I don't know if I'll even get through all of these...

I would be interested to hear anyone's comments on these titles.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't have anything to say...i just thought it was pathetic that foshee (pronounced fo-she, not fo-shay) had a big goose egg for comments...maybe this will get the ball rollin...

Return of the quotes:
Jacob Foshee: well maybe you should post a comment
Bret Warren Hodge: i can do it anonymously
Jacob Foshee: oh ok
Jacob Foshee: well you can just sign your name at the bottom
Jacob Foshee: if you dont want to be anonymous
Bret Warren Hodge: wow, you are smart...i bet you have a master's or something
Jacob Foshee: wow you are smart for realizing that
Jacob Foshee: i bet you do too

--anonymous

6/28/2004 9:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Snowcrash is an amazing book. I highly recommend reading it first. By that point you will only want to read Neal Stephenson books for the rest of summer, so: follow with Diamond Age, the I recommmend Cryptonomicon. It's different from the first two, but equally as enjoyable. Also, The DaVinci Code is often taken as historical fact, when in fact it is not. It is a fiction, people. I also recommend that you pick up anything written by Bill Watterson (by this I mean every Calvin and Hobbes comic ever written). This should get you through the summer. Also come down to A&M to visit. Mirko's girlfriend is in town, so we should all go have drinks. Congrats on the whole thesis thing, by the way.

With Love,
Kyle

6/29/2004 8:54 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just to let everyone know, Jacob really has no idea what any of these books mean. If you dont belive me ask him yourself. See this whole profile thing is really to try and land a chick. Even though the jerk is cheating on me and has no respect for his significant other dont be lead to belive or loured into his goody-to-shue side.

6/29/2004 2:48 PM  

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