Member: brewbooks

Hi,
I just got an e-mail that you added me to your "interesting libraries" list. I never saw that before, I'll have to check it out. When I came here I saw that we do have a lot in common, although I have not uploaded any of the math, comp sci, or physics books that I have been reading. Perhaps I'll start, now that I see your library.
I'm currently reading an old physics textbook, and about to start reading "Speaker for the Dead", but I'm in the middle of writing my fifth sci-fi novel so everything is getting a small time-slice of attention.
Nice to meet you.
Al

posted by drardavis at 12:01 pm (EST) on May 25, 2013

Hi,
I appreciate you reaching out and making the interesting library connection. I'm pretty intensely focused on a research project right now; at some point I'll get back in touch.

posted by mkelly at 6:23 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2012

A professor in the history of science specializing in Einstein told me that "Subtle is the Lord" is the best scientific biography of Einstein extant.

posted by stellarexplorer at 8:45 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2011

I love Abraham Pais' books -- I have several of them too!

BTW, I couldn't get your Technorati link to work.

posted by stellarexplorer at 12:07 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2011

Hi John
Time for you to explore Your Inner Fish? if you have not already.
Keep on posting your hikes and great destinations.
Cheers, Mike

posted by subarcticmike at 1:20 am (EST) on May 30, 2011

Hello Mr. Brew, thank you for adding me to your interesting libaries list. You have quite a collection yourself: from Zen and the Art to math and statistics to hiking and tracking--sounds like a nice life there in Seattle. Here's wishing you a prosperous new year. All Zee Best, TCW

posted by ThomasCWilliams at 12:22 am (EST) on Dec 28, 2010

i think there is a fourth volume of Norbert - less technical and more philosophical, reviews and such. Missed a chance to buy it...

posted by leememorin2006 at 9:37 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2010

Thank you for the kind review of my book!
- The "sappy" author. ;)

P.S., I think you'll love my next book - minimal sappiness! :)

posted by ftapon at 12:33 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2010

Hello John
Do let me know what you think of 'Islands in the Cosmos'. I am going to be wading thru Russel's references for some time. Cheers!

posted by subarcticmike at 8:26 pm (EST) on Aug 1, 2010

See we share Ramo, Business of Science. It blew me away. The recommendations of both Rockefeller and then Schultz for a national technology policy implemented at the national level and then the quick appointments by Nixon of Love, Simon, Zarb and Sawhill for an energy council..then nothing. Watergate invervened. Also his take on manned space travel. He clearly has written a lot and I have never heard of him.

posted by carterchristian1 at 4:32 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2010

Thanks for the "Interesting libraries" designation -- it pointed me to your library which too is interesting! We share a lot of science books, and our tag clouds bear some similarities.

posted by stellarexplorer at 11:49 pm (EST) on Jul 1, 2010

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/52865229

I uploaded a cover for this book if you are interested.

posted by yeremenko at 4:19 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2009

Hi! I noticed you added us as an "interesting Library". So is yours! It looks like you actually climb, rather than simply read about it -- the only people I know with the complete set of Beckey's CASCADE ALPINE GUIDE use them. Like us!

We live in Spokane -- it looks like you hail from Seattle?

Don't you LOVE LT??

~Sharon
aka MtnSk8tr

posted by MtnSk8tr at 10:13 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2009

Hello jb! Thanks for bouncing me over from flickr and into librarything, another huge resource. With this many titles posted online here, there is much non-fiction to explore. All the best in 2009, Mike (subarcticmike)

posted by subarcticmike at 12:22 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2009

j brew, Thanks for stopping by and your kind comment. Your collection is very interesting. I look forward to reviewing your science fiction collection as it comes on line. Best Always...Harry

posted by stevetempo at 10:46 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2008

Hi! Note your interest in Xtal sets. As a young kid 60+ yrs ago 'designed' by seat of my pants my own Broadcast Band rcvrs using huge individually-tuned multi-loop antennas with loops spatially coupled for simultaneous, empirical near-critical coupling with modest azimuthal directivity. Tuning an adjustment nightmare, especially so since I didn't know let alone appreciate the underlying mathematics. (Long after the fact, I'd guess radiation resistance limited Q's to the 500 - 800 range with 3-db bandwidths in the order of 2 kHz and skirt selectivities of maybe 18 dB/octave -- but interference was pretty horrendous.) Still have happy memories of receiving Chicago station in Western Massachusetts (once) -- a distance I guessed must have been near 1200 miles. Would get WWVA (Wheeling, W. Va) fairly regularly. Regret I've never seen anyone else to mention let alone try the scheme. Don't particularly regret stumbling half-asleep into Mrs. Daugherty's Latin I class totally unprepared, but try to make up for it by trying to work my way throughthe Anaeid.

posted by fneddy at 12:33 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2008

Wow - great library. I am adding to my reading list from it.

posted by johnclaydon at 3:09 pm (EST) on Aug 25, 2008

John, what does the "friends" concept mean to you? What functionality does it possess? The LT help resources do not even mention it. Thanks.

posted by listorama at 9:47 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2008

Thanks for exposing me to LibraryThing. I joined today and added 17 books (atlases).

posted by listorama at 4:16 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2008