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   4:48 pm, April 30, 2006Nick Presta  / Reply

   I will check out some of those programming books (Teach yourself programming in ten years, huh?).
   The only real book I have read on your list was The Great Gatsby.

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   3:52 pm, May 4, 2006dan  / Reply

   Effective Cycling is a damn awesome book, I agree.

   Have you read anything by Rushdie?

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   9:08 pm, May 4, 2006Debo  / Reply

   In February I was trying to plow through Midnight’s Children, and to be honest I couldn’t really understand why it was so highly acclaimed. There were glimpses of brilliance, but the narrative was so erratic that I spent most of my time rereading the same page many times over.

   Oddly enough it reminded me a lot of Under the Volcano (another book that I didn’t finish) in that the screen of verbiage that I was required to navigate through made me feel clueless as to what the author was trying to accomplish. Nabokov is verbose, but his verbosity was easy for me to follow since it had a wandering, daydreaming sort of quality that was very natural.

   I’m going to revisit Midnight’s Children when I know for sure that I will be able to devote significant blocks of time to getting through it. It’s obvious to me that I’m not going to get anything out of it if I only read it a few pages at a time.

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   2:32 pm, May 22, 2006Suze  / Reply

   I would like to add a couple of books to your list, and also to thank you for including my favorite Margaret Atwood book on it (consider including the handmaid’s tale, it too is good).
   Travel/Anthropology: Time among the maya
   Random: The poisonwood bible; the interpreter (not at all related to the movie); no great mischief
   Economics: Counting for Nothing (what men value and what women are worth; Waring); Development as Freedom (Sen)
   Nussbaum (she gets a category to herself in my world): Sex and Social Justice, Women and Human Development

   I could try to come up with some other things but I won’t. I’m supposed to be studying. I could tell you about basal cell carcinoma, that would kind of be like studying. BCC is the most common type of skin cancer! It rarely metastasizes but it can be locally destructive (read: it won’t likely kill you but it looks yucky). There are two common locations: sun exposed areas (upper back, arms, chest) as well as along embryological fusion planes (not related to sun; a fusion plane would include placess like where the nares meet the skin over the maxilla or along the ears). It looks really shiny and can be translucent. This is because there is mucin production within the tumor cells. Histologically, the tumor looks like nests of basaloid cells (a type of keratinocyte) and there is often peripheral palisading. It can also look like a red scaly plaque when it’s on the extremities (another thing that you might mix up with psoriasis if you aren’t careful). They can be pigmented, but the shiny surface is the give away.
   And now to complete our lesson on skin cancer, let us briefly mention the other two major types: squamous cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma. SCC begins as “actinic keratosis” and progresses. It’s also associated with sun exposure, but can arise from occupational exposures too. Malignant melanoma is defined by the ABCD’s: asymmetry, irregular, raised border, colour–variable (red, black, blue are the common ones–if you have what looks like a weird blue mole on your back, please go see your doctor), diameter–over 6mm in size. Women most often get melanoma on their legs, men tend to get it on their backs, shoulders. The five year survival depends on the thickness of the melanoma. Treatment is surgical removal only. Melanoma does like to metastasize to the brain.

   The moral of this dermatology lesson is to wear sunscreen, cover up when outdoors, put on sunglasses, and maybe avoid the times of day when there is maximal UV exposure (11am-3pm). The dermatologists at UBC seem to like Ombrelle as their sunscreen of choice. You should use one with a sun protection factor (SPF) of more than 30.

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   6:19 pm, June 17, 2010Kaylee Lopez  / Reply

   Bob Marley died of Melanoma right ?”:;

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   7:57 pm, July 25, 2010Hannah Hall  / Reply

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   8:15 am, September 12, 2010Ellie Hughes  / Reply

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   9:25 am, December 14, 2010Activated Carbon Filter  / Reply

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    10:28 pm, November 10, 2011Lokabrenna  / Reply

    Can’t go wrong with Philip K. Dick, Vonnegut, Nabokov, Lovecraft, Gödel (on this subject, this book might be interesting `Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid’), Machiavelli, Browning or Sir Walter Scott. (Confession: have only leafed through the afore-mentioned Gödel book.) As a self-identified obsessive fan of Zelazny’s Amber books (especially the original `Chronicles,’ as presented in the first 5 books), I am naturally biased in favor of the cycle concerned with Prince Corwin’s exploits. And math is always a win, perhaps its most amazing property being its knack for revealing fascinating relationships which would otherwise be inscrutable. Quite a list!

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