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Steal Like An Artist: Interactive Book Notes

February 3, 2025February 17, 2025 Allen

“Steal Like an Artist” is a book by Austin Kleon filled with inspirational quotes, activities, and exercises to tap into your creative life. Creativity isn’t

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Pre Code Comics: Comics Code Authority, Crime SuspenStories and Mad Magazine

January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 Allen

In my younger, prime comic buying years I remember that most comics had this seal in the upper right hand corner I noticed that modern

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Books Learning Thinking

Need Help Remembering What You Read? A Case Study

January 5, 2025January 5, 2025 Allen

I recently decided to read the Lord of The Rings trilogy, a 1200 page epic tale with dozens of characters, scenes, and parts of the

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A Technological Innovation: The Notebook

December 6, 2024December 6, 2024 Allen

Rather than provide a detailed review, or parsing through my reading notes, I will provide some higher level perspective on the history of the notebook,

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Have You Ever Typed Anything on a Public Typewriter?

October 28, 2024November 3, 2024 Allen

Notes From a Public Typewriter is part memoir, part biography, but mostly a collection of notes that visitors to an Ann Arbor, MI bookstore have

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Book Notes: For Whom The Bell Tolls

September 1, 2024September 1, 2024 Allen

There are many editions of this 1940 book available. This cover art is just one of them that I found online. True Confession: I had

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Books Learning Thinking

“The biggest problem today is not artificial intelligence, but instead natural stupidity”-Anand Tamboli

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 Allen

This is the second book that I’ve recently read while trying to increase my knowledge of how AI works. The difficulty is that AI is

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Book Notes: Understanding Comics (Comics aren’t Just for Kids!)

July 23, 2024July 23, 2024 Allen

From the author’s website “A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication. Understanding

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Book Review and Notes: Pushing Ice

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 Allen

Here are the front and back covers of the book “The year is 2057, humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form,

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Book Notes: Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman

June 16, 2024June 17, 2024 Allen

This little book is another in the series I’ll call “Stolen Moments”–in this case reading the short chapters while reading the streetcar to my local

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